Hi Emmanuel,
> We have two versions of plexus-utils in Debian, the version 1.5.15 used > by Maven 2 in the plexus-utils package, and the version 2.0.5 used by > Maven 3.0.x in the plexus-utils2 package. Maven 3.1 uses plexus-utils 3.0.x. > > After some investigation it seems we could use a single version of this > library, the compatibility from the version 1.5.15 to the latest 3.0.15 > is very good. japi-compliance-checker reports only 1% of incompatible > changes between 1.5.15 and 2.0.5, which seems to indicate the creation > of the plexus-utils2 package wasn't necessary. > > To verify this I upgraded locally the libplexus-utils-java package to > 2.0.6 and rebuilt the 75 reverse dependencies. Everything compiled fine. > I pushed further and upgraded to 3.0.15. Again I have been able to build > all the reverse dependencies. > > So if you agree I'd like to: > - Upgrade the plexus-utils package from 1.5.15 to 3.0.15 > - Update the 7 reverse dependencies of libplexus-utils2-java to use > libplexus-utils-java instead > - Request the removal of plexus-utils2 > > What do you think? First off - I am impressed. Then, there will with some good confidence be a plexus-utils 4 coming and we have a bit of the same ugly non-monotonity in "sonames" that we have now. I hence suggest to craft plexus-utils3 and ask for the removal of plexus-utils...or just leave it for now. Cheers, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/trinity-7a8f97e1-dc05-4064-8dde-ed58fe510cc6-1382558919191@3capp-gmx-bs43
