Hi all, I've attempted a backport of Maven 3.3 to Jessie and it went surprisingly well. I thought it was going to pull a lot of dependencies but I was pleased to find out it requires only 8 dependencies:
eclipse-aether >= 1.0 guice >= 4.0 sisu-plexus >= 0.3.0 sisu-inject >= 0.3.0 osgi-core >= 6.0.0 osgi-annotation (new in Jessie) modello-maven-plugin >= 1.8 modello >= 1.8 I don't think there is a risk pushing these dependencies to Jessie: - eclipse-aether, sisu-plexus and sisu-inject are only used by Maven 3 - modello and modello-maven-plugin are backward compatible and used at build time only - guice 4.0 should be compatible with the version in Jessie - osgi-core is binary compatible Maven 3.3 will break gradle <= 2.7-4 though, so the current backport will need an update. If nobody objects I'll start uploading the backports in the next days. Emmanuel Bourg
