/usr/share/java as maven repository?

[Marcus Better]

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> I'm not sure if our ideas are really opposed:

Certainly not, I'm all for doing rebuilds of reverse dependencies if
possible. So do you have any plans on how to implement this? Should the
rebuilding be done before uploading a new version, or will that take too
long? Or should we just have an ongoing archive rebuild as a QA effort?

> You seem to be arguing for packagers to be careful about documented
> ABI/API changes in the
> code and to check for them manually, if necessary.

Yes, but first we need a way to specify dependencies in terms of ABI like
what is done with C libraries.

Cheers,

Marcus