Re: Feature proposal: Dependency deprecation indicators

2021-07-28 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
> There are definitely several good questions to be answered about what > exactly the feature would look like, so questions and comments are welcome > :) sure, many questions... here are my first thoughts: - we have relocation, which is far from well known and easy to use, but that is probably qu

Feature proposal: Dependency deprecation indicators

2021-07-28 Thread Chris Kilding
Hello, I would like to propose a new Maven feature: dependency deprecation indicators. In a nutshell, the idea is to let maintainers set a 'deprecated' metadata indicator on a Maven artifact in a repository. This will indicate to users that the artifact should no longer be used. The Maven CLI