Bug#721474: Please provide Maven artifacts with debian or 2.x version

[Damien Raude-Morvan]

Hi Emmanuel,

2013/9/1 Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org>

> Le 01/09/2013 03:26, Miguel Landaeta a écrit :
>
> > A POM file with 'debian' or '2.x' version should be provided with this
> > package.
>
> The Maven plugins don't have a generic 'debian' or 1.x version, but I'm
> not sure to understand why.
>
> Ludovic, Damien, do you remember the reason behind this choice ?


IIRC, it was an issue with Maven 2.x handling of plugin default version :
Maven use a super-pom (embeded inside maven-core.jar AFAIK)
which enforce versions of some plugins when user doesn't define a specific
version.

Maybe we should recheck this behavior with new Maven 3.x dependency
handling...

Cheers,
-- 
Damien - Debian Developper
http://wiki.debian.org/DamienRaudeMorvan
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