Go for it and ask to update the backport . On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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 > >
