This is notification that mvn-rpmbuild script has just been removed upstream. The next version of javapackages-tools in Fedora 23 will follow upstream and remove this script too. Packages that still use mvn-rpmbuild will fail to build.
mvn-rpmbuild has been deprecated for 2 years. It has been replaced by newer %mvn_build macro. Migration guide from mvn-rpmbuild to %mvn_build is available at [1]. More information about current recommended way of packaging Java software built with Maven can be found at [2].
[1] https://mizdebsk.fedorapeople.org/xmvn/cookbook/ [2] https://fedorahosted.org/released/javapackages/doc/
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From: "Mikolaj Izdebski" mizdebsk@redhat.com To: "Fedora Java Development List" java-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Thursday, 9 April, 2015 10:30:53 AM Subject: [fedora-java] Removing mvn-rpmbuild from Fedora 23
This is notification that mvn-rpmbuild script has just been removed upstream. The next version of javapackages-tools in Fedora 23 will follow upstream and remove this script too. Packages that still use mvn-rpmbuild will fail to build.
mvn-rpmbuild has been deprecated for 2 years. It has been replaced by newer %mvn_build macro. Migration guide from mvn-rpmbuild to %mvn_build is available at [1]. More information about current recommended way of packaging Java software built with Maven can be found at [2].
Additional info for Eclipse plugin packagers as mvn-rpmbuild was used in these at latest: There is proper XMvn-Tycho integration in Fedora 22 so most tycho based eclipse packages can be build just like any regular Maven package. We have migrated most of the Eclipse packages but we can missed something so if you hit such package and have trouble porting it please contact us.
Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team
[1] https://mizdebsk.fedorapeople.org/xmvn/cookbook/ [2] https://fedorahosted.org/released/javapackages/doc/
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