Maven2 package requires too many dependencie

I second that. When I tried to install the maven2 package it tries to install - amongst many other things that I don't want and that are not necessary to run maven - gcj (I have the sun jdk, what do I need gcj for???) and ant. I attached my output from apt-get install maven2 since it is in English and might be easier to understand for some people.

If I know how to do it, I would provide a maven2 package for Ubuntu without the unnecessary dependencies. Are there any pointers on how to create a deb package from a java source?

It seems that Ubuntu's Maven prefers:

<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-4</version>

.. while Apache's Maven prefers:

<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-2</version>

(which does not fail on the element)

If I hardcode the version to either of these I get consistent behavior, ie. both work with 2.2-beta-2, or both fail with 2.2-beta-4.

Not sure if this is still a valid bug, it is still interesting that a different (newer) version is preferred by Ubuntu's Maven..

please ignore my comment #3 - it was meant for bug #551724

Can the thread starter provide more specifiy info:
- what are the 41 depended packages?
- what are the exact packages that are not necessary?

I for one, is aware of the problem, though I prefer Ubuntu providing "standard" Maven plugins, rather than Maven downloading yet another set of plugins during build. There's nothing that irritates me more than running a build or Maven goal and be blocked due to Maven cannot find a plugin that it needs, because I'm in a slow or no Internet connection.

Hi Hendy,

- The thread starter added an attachment that will show the 41 packages.

- I think that most of them are not necessary. E.g. why do I need beanshell or plexus for a vanilla maven install?

- I want maven to download required plugins. I don't want to download a lot of "standard" plugins because maven thinks I might need them at one point. Maven has its own package management system. There is no need to use Ubuntu's. And IMHO there is nothing more irritating than installing an Ubuntu package and needing to download many unneeded dependencies while you have a slow internet connection (that is why I installed maven manually).

Hendy,

jtuchscherer exactly made the point. Maven handles the depenendencies on its own. Those deb deps will outdate anyway. If you want to avoid unecessary downloads, install Nexus locally and it will handle everything for you.

Let apt-get handle the Maven installation only and not interfere with its dependency system. I won't go through every dep but virtually 80 % of them are useless moreover, I am not able to purge my local repo since there prepared artifacts always remain.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.