Bug#688085: SEVERE: Cannot resolve dependencies in ./pom.xml: Dangling meta

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Package: maven-debian-helper
Version: 1.5.1
Severity: important

  I am trying to package Perf4j using mh_make. It seems to work quite
well. Steps:

$ wget https://github.com/perf4j/perf4j/tarball/perf4j-0.9.16
$ tar xvfz [...]
$ mh_make
Environment variable DEBLICENSE not set, using GPL-3+ by default

Enter the name of the new Debian source package. If empty, it will
defaults to perf4j
>

Enter the name of the binary package. If empty, it will defaults to
libperf4j-java
>

Run tests while building the package?
[y]/n > y

Generate the Javadoc while building the package?
[y]/n > y

Checking that apt-file is installed and has been configured...
[ok]

Checking that licensecheck is installed...
[ok]

Solving dependencies for package libperf4j-java (tests are included)
(documentation is included)
Analysing pom.xml...
Enter the upstream version for the package. If you press <Enter> it
will default to 0.9.16
>

Version of org.perf4j:perf4j is 0.9.16
Choose how it will be transformed:
[1] - Replace all versions starting by 0. with 0.x
 2  - Change the version to the symbolic 'debian' version
 3  - Keep the version
 4  - Custom rule
>
Resolving log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.14 of scope compile...
Sep 13, 2012 9:16:29 AM
org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver$ToResolve resolve
SEVERE: Cannot resolve dependencies in ./pom.xml: Dangling meta
character '+' near index 0
+)\.(.*)/\$1\.\$2\.x/
^
java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '+' near index 0
+)\.(.*)/\$1\.\$2\.x/
^
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1730)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:1895)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:1769)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1477)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1150)
        at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:840)
        at org.debian.maven.repo.Rule.<init>(Rule.java:44)
        at org.debian.maven.repo.DependencyRule.<init>(DependencyRule.java:41)
        at org.debian.maven.repo.POMInfo.getPublishedRules(POMInfo.java:275)
        at org.debian.maven.repo.Repository.searchMatchingPOM(Repository.java:130)
        at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.resolveDependency(DependenciesSolver.java:987)
        at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.resolveDependency(DependenciesSolver.java:883)
        at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.resolveDependencies(DependenciesSolver.java:878)
        at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.access$000(DependenciesSolver.java:56)
        at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver$ToResolve.resolve(DependenciesSolver.java:353)
        at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.resolveDependenciesNow(DependenciesSolver.java:864)
        at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.solveDependencies(DependenciesSolver.java:598)
        at org.debian.maven.packager.DependenciesSolver.main(DependenciesSolver.java:1420)
Resolving org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:maven-plugin:2.0.2
of scope runtime...
Dependency org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:maven-plugin:2.0.2
found in package libmaven-compiler-plugin-java
[ok]

Resolving org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:maven-plugin:2.2.1
of scope runtime...

In pom.xml:
This plugin is not useful for the build or its use is against Debian
policies. Ignore this plugin?
  org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:maven-plugin:2.2.1

ref:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2012/09/msg00009.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages maven-debian-helper depends on:
ii  default-jdk                1:1.6-40      Standard Java or Java compatible D
ii  libmaven-clean-plugin-java 2.3-3         Maven clean plugin
ii  libmaven-compiler-plugin-j 2.0.2-4       Maven compiler plugin
ii  libmaven-jar-plugin-java   2.2-4         Maven Jar plugin
ii  libmaven-resources-plugin- 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          1.7.1~bpo60+1 Helper tools for including Maven m
ii  maven2                     2.2.1-5       Java software project management a
ii  velocity                   1.6.2-4       Java-based template engine for web

Versions of packages maven-debian-helper recommends:
ii  apt-file                      2.4.0      search for files within Debian pac

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

-- no debconf information