Bug#693234: Error while resolving ./pom.xml: Dangling meta character '+' near index 0

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Package: maven-debian-helper
Version: 1.1
Severity: important

I cannot run mh_make on xslthl. It fails with:

$ mh_make --from-svn=http://xslthl.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xslthl/tags/xslthl-2.1.0/
[...]
Solving dependencies for package libxslthl-java (tests are included) (documentation is included)
Analysing pom.xml...
Resolving org.sonatype.oss:oss-parent:pom:7 of scope runtime...
Nov 14, 2012 2:12:12 PM org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver resolveDependencies
SEVERE: Error while resolving ./pom.xml: Dangling meta character '+' near index 0
+)\.(.*)/\$1\.\$2\.x/
^
Nov 14, 2012 2:12:12 PM org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver resolveDependencies
SEVERE: 
java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '+' near index 0
+)\.(.*)/\$1\.\$2\.x/
^
  at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1730)
  at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:1895)
  at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:1769)
  at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1477)
  at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1150)
  at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:840)
  at org.debian.maven.repo.Rule.<init>(Rule.java:44)
  at org.debian.maven.repo.DependencyRule.<init>(DependencyRule.java:41)
  at org.debian.maven.repo.POMInfo.getPublishedRules(POMInfo.java:275)
  at org.debian.maven.repo.Repository.searchMatchingPOM(Repository.java:130)
  at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.resolveDependency(DependenciesSolver.java:987)
  at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.resolveDependencies(DependenciesSolver.java:629)
  at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.solveDependencies(DependenciesSolver.java:585)
  at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.main(DependenciesSolver.java:1420)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages maven-debian-helper depends on:
ii  default-jdk                1:1.6-40      Standard Java or Java compatible D
ii  libmaven-clean-plugin-java 2.3-3         Maven clean plugin
ii  libmaven-compiler-plugin-j 2.0.2-4       Maven compiler plugin
ii  libmaven-jar-plugin-java   2.2-4         Maven Jar plugin
ii  libmaven-resources-plugin- 2.3-5         Maven resources plugin
ii  libmaven-site-plugin-java  2.1-1         Maven Site Plugin for generating a
ii  libplexus-velocity-java    1.1.7-3       Plexus component interface to velo
ii  libsurefire-java           2.4.3-3       Surefire test framework for Java
ii  maven-repo-helper          1.7.1~bpo60+1 Helper tools for including Maven m
ii  maven2                     2.2.1-5       Java software project management a
ii  velocity                   1.6.2-4       Java-based template engine for web

Versions of packages maven-debian-helper recommends:
ii  apt-file                      2.4.0      search for files within Debian pac

Versions of packages maven-debian-helper suggests:
pn  libmaven-javadoc-plugin-java  <none>     (no description available)

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