Bug#454077: maven2: maven-eclipse-plugin does not exist

[Amelia A Lewis]

Package: maven2
Version: 2.0.7-2
Severity: normal

Command and results:

(ydhegar)amyzing:/pub/projects/hudson/hudson$ mvn -e -DdownloadSources=true
eclipse:eclipse
+ Error stacktraces are turned on.

[ SNIPPED: project information (it's for hudson, if you care) ]

[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'eclipse'.
[INFO]
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[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO]
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[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin' does not
exist or no valid version could be found
[INFO]
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[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: The plugin
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin' does not exist or no valid
version could be found
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1286)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.getMojoDescriptor(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1522)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.segmentTaskListByAggregationNeeds(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:386)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:138)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:334)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:125)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:280)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
        sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at
        sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at
        org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
        at
        org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.version.PluginVersionNotFoundException:
The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin' does not exist or
no valid version could be found
        at
org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePluginVersion(DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:228)
        at
org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePluginVersion(DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:90)
        at
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin(DefaultPluginManager.java:166)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1257)
        ... 14 more
[INFO]
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[INFO] Total time: 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Sun Dec 02 16:35:31 EST 2007
[INFO] Final Memory: 7M/86M
[INFO]
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This makes it hard to use the apt-delivered Maven + Eclipse for development
of projects.

Maven 2's project page doesn't appear to include instructions for manual
installation of plugins when the automatic retrieval mechanism fails.  I
suppose that that's the next thing to try to do.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages maven2 depends on:
ii  libcommons-cli-java      1.0-11          API for working with the command l
ii  libdoxia-java            1.0-alpha-7-1   a powerful content generation fram
ii  libjsch-java             0.1.34ds1-1     java secure channel
ii  libjtidy-java            7+svn20070309-1 a Java port of HTML Tidy, a HTML s
ii  libplexus-interactivity- 1.0-alpha-6-2   interactivity API for the Plexus f
ii  libwagon-java            1.0-beta-2-2    tools to manage Maven artifacts an
ii  libxalan2-java           2.7.0-5         XSL Transformations (XSLT) process

maven2 recommends no packages.

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