Bug#1054324: Inability to override install.to.usj property

[Jérôme Charaoui]

Package: maven-debian-helper
Version: 2.6.4
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

Lately, I've been working on updating the jruby-maven-plugins package. 
As part of this work I wanted to rename the binary package from 
"jruby-maven-plugins" which is not java-policy compliant, to 
"libjruby-maven-plugins-java".

However, this causes maven-debian-helper to install the jars into 
/usr/share/java because the package name isn't recognized as a maven 
plugin by the regex.

This might be easily fixed by passing -Dinstall.to.usj=false but 
unfortunately this can't be done because the maven command called by the 
maven debhelper module passes "-Dinstall.to.usj=true" to Maven directly.

I believe we can just drop this property from the debhelper Maven 
command-line: by default, the property is true anyway. This would allow 
packages to override the automatic decision to install to usj.

Alternatives are: package name status quo, using 
"libjruby-maven-plugin-java" (singular), or breaking out the various 
plugins into different packages (even though they all depend on each 
other), but it's all sub-optimal.

Thanks!

-- Jérôme