Bug#1129623: maven-debian-helper uses dependency pom version in Maven:* substvars

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 04/03/2026 à 05:08, Vladimir Petko a écrit :

> maven-debian-helper uses dependency pom version when generating substvars.
> This creates unsatisfiable constraints when the pom version and package
> upstream version do not match.
> 
> Example is async-http-client that depends on libnetty-reactive-streams-java (>=
> 2.0.9-SNAPSHOT), where the package version of netty-reactive-streams is
> 2.0.8[1].
> 
> Please consider using Debian package version of the dependency rather than POM
> version to generate version constraints in substvars.

The dependency is versioned only when the --has-package-version flag is 
set. In this case netty-reactive-streams POM version doesn't match the 
package version, so its --has-package-version flag is wrong and should 
be removed.

Emmanuel Bourg