Description of problem: An increasing number of usptream Java projects are moving from Ant builds to Maven builds. Maven2 was only added to Fedora 7, so it is not present in the RHEL 5.0 (or 5.1 Beta). This prevents rebuilding many Java SRPMS on RHEL-5. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Maven 2.0.4 and dependencies How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt building a package that needs maven2 to build 2. 3. Actual results: maven2 and maven2 plugins not available Expected results: Package is built Additional info: The maven2 packages and its dependencies were added in an effort that involved many developers to Fedora 7, and it is now in F-7 and in the F-8 development branch. The works is don, it is just a question of rebuilding that set of packages on RHEL-5 These packages are additional, so there is no current package in RHEL-5 that depends on them, so there is no concerns at all about backwards compatibility.
The package set will not be imported into RHEL-5 in the forseeable future due to the significant maintenance overheard and fairly low advantage. Marking WONTFIX. Feel free to re-open if maven2 becomes necessary in RHEL-5 in the future.