Re: The state of Maven

2017-11-13 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 18/09/2017 à 15:04, Emmanuel Bourg a écrit : > Quick update from the Maven front: > - The removal of Maven 2 is almost complete. I'm waiting for > aether-ant-tasks in the NEW queue to remove maven-ant-tasks, the last > package holding maven2-core. > - Some packages still fail to build due to

Re: The state of Maven

2017-09-18 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 3/08/2017 à 10:31, Emmanuel Bourg a écrit : > Our maven package was rather fat a few releases > ago, there was even a Launchpad bug rightfully complaining about it. > Here is the result of 'apt-get install maven' since Wheezy (with the JRE > already installed): > wheezy: 129 packages,

Re: The state of Maven

2017-09-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 5/08/2017 à 23:39, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > > The C function isatty() on the output filedescriptor, but in a > > build helper like that I’d expect it to always be disabled. > > I tried istty() but it's disabled when using pbuilder even if the

Re: The state of Maven

2017-08-31 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 5/08/2017 à 23:39, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > The C function isatty() on the output filedescriptor, but in a > build helper like that I’d expect it to always be disabled. I tried istty() but it's disabled when using pbuilder even if the terminal supports colors. I used 'tput colors' in

Re: The state of Maven

2017-08-31 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 3/08/2017 à 10:31, Emmanuel Bourg a écrit : > This caused some disruptions, not all are resolved yet, but > fortunately I've managed to avoid the trap of breaking Maven completely > and being unable to fix it. I take that claim back :) As I switched more packages from the older dependencies

Re: The state of Maven

2017-08-05 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 5/08/2017 à 13:15, Markus Koschany a écrit : > My question: What exactly can I/we do to help? Excellent question, thanks :) Some help migrating away from the older packages I mentioned would be nice (for example libplexus-utils-java which still has 50 reverse dependencies). Emmanuel Bourg

Re: The state of Maven

2017-08-05 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 3/08/2017 à 14:03, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > I’d have preferred it doing something like tty detection, to behave > nice with other OSS citizens, but oh well and it’s upstream’s issue. Interesting, do you know how to do that in Perl? We could perform the detection in maven-debian-helper and

Re: The state of Maven

2017-08-05 Thread Markus Koschany
On 03/08/17 04:31, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Hi all, As you may have noticed I have updated many Maven related packages recently, and I'd like to summarize quickly what I'm doing and where we're heading. Hi, first of all thank you very much for updating this core build tool for Java. Maven in

Re: The state of Maven

2017-08-05 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi all, > > As you may have noticed I have updated many Maven related packages > recently, and I'd like to summarize quickly what I'm doing and where > we're heading. > > Maven in testing/unstable is currently at the latest upstream release > (3.5.0).