Bug#577783: /usr/bin/mh_make: mh_make should prompt for pom.xml location when file is not present in source root

[Onkar Shinde]

Package: maven-debian-helper
Version: 0.9
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/mh_make

I am working on packaging struts 2 and found out that the source does not contain the main pom.xml in source root directory. Instead it is in src directory. Trying to use mh_make with this source fails because mh_make expects pom.xml in root directory.

Ideally mh_make should prompt user for path to pom.xml file if it is not found in root directory.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages maven-debian-helper depends on:
ii  default-jre [java2-runtime]  1.6-34      Standard Java or Java compatible R
ii  libmaven-clean-plugin-java   2.3-3       Maven clean plugin
ii  libmaven-compiler-plugin-jav 2.0.2-4     Maven compiler plugin
ii  libmaven-jar-plugin-java     2.2-4       Maven Jar plugin
ii  libmaven-resources-plugin-ja 2.3-5       Maven resources plugin
ii  libmaven-site-plugin-java    2.1-1       Maven Site Plugin for generating a
ii  libplexus-velocity-java      1.1.7-3     Plexus component interface to velo
ii  libsurefire-java             2.4.3-3     Surefire test framework for Java
ii  maven-repo-helper            1.0.5       Helper tools for including Maven m
ii  maven2                       2.2.1-2     Java software project management a
ii  openjdk-6-jre [java2-runtime 6b18~pre2-1 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo
ii  velocity                     1.6.2-4     Java-based template engine for web

Versions of packages maven-debian-helper recommends:
ii  apt-file                      2.3.3      search for files within Debian pac

Versions of packages maven-debian-helper suggests:
pn  libmaven-javadoc-plugin-java  <none>     (no description available)

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