Bug#466860: Your Debian Bug Report re Maven2

[Paul Cager]

Thank you for your bug report, and I agree that it should be
severity=important. I'd prefer lenny to go out without Maven rather than
with this bug.

This problem (and http://bugs.debian.org/458895) happen because Debian's
version of Maven uses version 1.1 of Apache's commons-cli library, whereas
upstream's Maven uses version 1.0.  Version 1.1 has introduced
significantly different behaviour around the handling of repeated
arguments (such as: -Dsome.option=0 -Dsomething.else=1).

The fix for 458895 allowed multiple "-D" args, as in:

  mvn -e archetype:create -DgroupId=org.x.y -DartifactId=z
-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-j2ee-simple

But then commons-cli assumes that everything after the first "-D" is
another "-D", which is why this fails:

  mvn -Dsome.option=0 install

Unless I am missing something obvious, commons-cli 1.1 is rather broken
and can't support the syntax Maven requires. I'll look more deeply into
commons-cli's code this week to see what we should do.

Thanks,
Paul