Bug#907554: maven-debian-helper: relocations do not work for packaging type pom

[Markus Koschany]

Package: maven-debian-helper
Version: 2.3
Severity: normal

While I was investigating RC bug #906350 in doxia, I discovered that
the root cause of the build failure is the relocation of
org.apache.maven:maven-parent in libmaven-parent-java. Apparently the
idea was to redirect the current version 31 to version 27 again.

libmaven-parent-java.poms:

pom.xml --has-package-version --site-xml=src/site-docs/site.xml --keep-elements=build --relocate=org.apache.maven:maven-parent:27

However now the relocated pom.xml is of packaging type jar and no
longer packaging type pom. Maven complains about that in doxia and
fails.

Ideally this use case should be supported in
maven-debian-helper/maven-repo-helper. Other options are to fix this
in libmaven-parent-java or work around it in doxia.

Markus


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

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages maven-debian-helper depends on:
ii  default-jdk                     2:1.10-68
ii  default-jdk-headless            2:1.10-68
ii  libmaven-clean-plugin-java      3.1.0-1
ii  libmaven-compiler-plugin-java   3.8.0-1
ii  libmaven-jar-plugin-java        3.1.0-1
ii  libmaven-resources-plugin-java  3.1.0-1
ii  libmaven-site-plugin-java       3.6-3
ii  libplexus-velocity-java         1.2-3
ii  libsurefire-java                2.21.0-1
ii  libxml2-utils                   2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b1
ii  maven                           3.5.3-1
ii  maven-repo-helper               1.9.3
ii  unzip                           6.0-21
ii  velocity                        1.7-5

maven-debian-helper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages maven-debian-helper suggests:
ii  apt-file                      3.1.6
pn  libmaven-javadoc-plugin-java  <none>
pn  licensecheck                  <none>
ii  subversion                    1.10.2-1

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