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])
You say that modularity is making people leave but this applies to any changes,
including the one you are proposing here.
Pierre
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Stewardship