Package: maven-debian-helper
Version: 2.6.4
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
Lately, I've been working on updating the jruby-maven-plugins package.
As part of this work I wanted to rename the binary package from
"jruby-maven-plugins" which is not java-policy compliant, to
"libjruby-maven-plugins-java".
However, this causes maven-debian-helper to install the jars into
/usr/share/java because the package name isn't recognized as a maven
plugin by the regex.
This might be easily fixed by passing -Dinstall.to.usj=false but
unfortunately this can't be done because the maven command called by the
maven debhelper module passes "-Dinstall.to.usj=true" to Maven directly.
I believe we can just drop this property from the debhelper Maven
command-line: by default, the property is true anyway. This would allow
packages to override the automatic decision to install to usj.
Alternatives are: package name status quo, using
"libjruby-maven-plugin-java" (singular), or breaking out the various
plugins into different packages (even though they all depend on each
other), but it's all sub-optimal.
Thanks!
-- Jérôme
