[fedora-java] Intent to retire maven-ant-tasks

[Will Benton]

Leiningen 1.7 is broken on F20 (and it isn't immediately obvious to me how to get it working without bringing back other deprecated packages), so I wouldn't view it as an obstacle to retiring maven-ant-tasks.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikolaj Izdebski" <mizdebsk at redhat.com>
> To: java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 2:46:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [fedora-java] Intent to retire maven-ant-tasks
> 
> On 03/06/2014 06:24 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > I think it is well past time to have retired maven-ant-tasks.  I just
> > doesn't support maven 3 and upstream appears to be dead - no scm commits
> > for 10 months.  I'm planning on retiring by Friday unless someone else
> > wants to flog this dead horse.
> 
> Definitely agreed.  Maven 2.x is officially considered as EOL and there
> will be no new releases.
> 
> Users of maven-ant-tasks can migrate to aether-ant-tasks which are still
> actively developed and provide similar interface.
> 
> > # repoquery --whatrequires maven-ant-tasks
> > leiningen-0:1.7.1-7.fc20.noarch
> > 
> > but I don't know about BuildRequires.
> 
> COnsidering both Requires and BuildRequires only 2 packages depend on
> maven-ant-tasks: closure-compiler and leiningen.
> 
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