Hi, Thank you for this opportunity, here is my wishlist, mostly focused on making packaging easier, especially for people unfamiliar with the Debian packaging system (like me):
1/ Make the Debian version of maven able to locate its own plugins. Simplest example I could come up with. - Following packages were installed: maven, maven-debian-helper, maven-repo-helper) - Pom did not specify the maven-clean-plugin version (so that it would be resolved from the installed maven) $ MAVEN_OPTS="-Dmaven.repo.local=/usr/share/maven-repo" mvn --offline clean [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] [INFO] --------------------------< org.symly:symly >--------------------------- [INFO] Building Symly 0.11-SNAPSHOT [INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]--------------------------------- [WARNING] The artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:jar:2.5 has been relocated to org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:jar:3.2.0 [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:3.2.0:clean (default-clean) @ symly --- [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 0.065 s [INFO] Finished at: 2024-12-18T09:46:09Z [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:3.2.0:clean (default-clean) on project symly: Execution default-clean of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:3.2.0:clean failed: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Cannot access central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) in offline mode and the artifact org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils:jar:1.1 has not been downloaded from it before. -> [Help 1] 2/ Add a cookbook on how to create poms that are compatible with both Maven and Debian best practices as well as a step by step guide for mh_make integration. The page https://wiki.debian.org/Java/Packaging/Maven is very minimal, the "mh_make" section contains a deadlink to http://collab.debian.net/portal/planet-debian/markus-koschany-pdfsam-how-to-upgrade-a-maven-application-for-debian. The only documentation I was able to find for mh_make is the youtube video. 3/ Provide a more controlled and flexible way of locating a JRE runtime for java start scripts. A possible solution would be findjava (I'm the author). I submitted a request for packaging via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039109 Emmanuel Bourg started to look at how to package findjava, but stopped not sure if because of time, interest or blockers. See https://github.com/loicrouchon/findjava/issues/1 Loïc
