The underlying cause seems to be a fix in maven-shared-utils 3.2, which was uploaded recently. The fix MSHARED-610 [1] seems to have exposed IOException that were previously being ignored, so surefire now needs to be updated to handle those.
I have opened a bug report upstream (SUREFIRE-1558 [2]) to let them know about it. References: [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-610 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1558 -- Tiago Stürmer Daitx Software Engineer tiago.da...@canonical.com PGP Key: 4096R/F5B213BE (hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com) Fingerprint = 45D0 FE5A 8109 1E91 866E 8CA4 1931 8D5E F5B2 13BE __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.