On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 12:02:46PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> > You seem to totally miss the point - there is no one even trying to ship
> > Maven as a traditional package so what should we do give up on having
> > anything built with Maven in the distro?
>
> If module-only packages finally get banned (as they should have been from
> the onset), the Maven maintainers will HAVE TO maintain the non-modular
> version if they want to maintain Maven at all.
You're assuming they will want to.
I agree with Kevin Fenzi's email that the here the input from the people who
have made the choice to go full-modular would be nice.
If we follow your hard rule we may end up choosing between:
- java/maven being available as module
- no java/maven at all in Fedora
(this modulo the heroic efforts of the stewardship SIG - itself modulo the
fact that the SIG defines itself has a temporary solution [1])
FWIW, since I don't see the Java SIG rising from the ashes that were left by it burning to the ground anytime soon, we definitely *will continue* to maintain critical packages for the foreseeable future. So maven and all its dependencies are safe. I also have early plans to update it to the 3.6 branch for f32.
I will later update the wiki page to reflect the current reality. The documents in our pagure project should be up to date though.
Fabio