Le 1/07/2016 à 16:04, Markus Koschany a écrit : > I hope I'll remember this feature should I ever try to update one of > those libfoo2-java packages again. But didn't we settle for trying to > avoid versioned package names in general?
That was just en example, I still advocate avoiding versioned package names for the current upstream releases if possible. The relocations could also be used to transition from libfoo<n>-java back to libfoo-java, as just happened with groovy, cglib and asm. > The testng use case looks interesting but will probably only work as > long as the new version (e.g. 7.x) is compatible but then it is quite > useful indeed. Yes it only works if the versions are compatible of course. > It really looks like as it would ease future transitions. I hope so! It should also lead to lighter maven.rules files. Emmanuel Bourg
