Package: maven-repo-helper (0.9)

Helper tools for including Maven metatada in Debian packages

Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

Maven's primary goal is to allow a developer to comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time. In order to attain this goal there are several areas of concern that Maven attempts to deal with:

   * Making the build process easy
   * Providing a uniform build system
   * Providing quality project information
   * Providing guidelines for best practices development
   * Allowing transparent migration to new features

This package enables Debian packages which are not using Maven in their build process to provide and install Maven POMs and libraries in the repository located in /usr/share/maven-repo.

Packages built with Maven (using maven-debian-helper) will benefit as many of their dependencies are already packaged in Debian but they are missing the necessary metadata (Maven POM) which is required by Maven when its using dependencies.