Fedora 30 Self-Contained Change proposal: Deprecate Apache Maven 2.x

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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Deprecate_Apache_Maven_2.x

== Summary ==
Mark Apache Maven 2.x software packages as deprecated.

== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:Mizdebsk|Mikolaj Izdebski]]
* Email: mizdebsk@xxxxxxxxxx

== Detailed Description ==
The last upstream release of Apache Maven 2.x was in November 2009,
more than 9 years ago.  Upstream declares that this version of Maven
has reached its end of life, is no longer supported and that security
vulnerability reports will not be addressed
<ref>https://maven.apache.org/maven-2.x-eol.html</ref>.  The next
major version, Maven 3, is available in Fedora 15 and later since year
2010.

Apache Maven 2.x software packages are intended to be eventually
removed from Fedora, but are kept in Fedora for some additional,
indeterminate time for various reasons including maintaining backwards
compatibility.  In order to prevent new packages from depending on
these packages, they are marked as deprecated.

As of time of submilsion of this change proposal, 75 Fedora components
still Require or BuildRequire Apache Maven 2.x packages, therefore
immediate retirement of these packages is not feasible at this point.

== Benefit to Fedora ==
Packages of obsolete Apache Maven 2.x software will be clearly and
explicitly marked as deprecated.  Other packages in Fedora will not be
able to add dependencies on deprecated packages (that includes
Requires, BuildRequires, Recommends, Suggests, etc.).  This applies
both for updates of existing packages and new packages added to
Fedora.  This in turn will make it easier to gradually remove
dependencies on deprecated packages and finally remove deprecated
Apache Maven 2.x software from Fedora.

== Scope ==
* Proposal owners: add special virtual provides
<code>deprecated()</code> to all packages built from
<code>maven2</code> source component.
* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7990 #7990]

== User Experience ==
No change in user experience.  Technically, nothing changes;
deprecated packages work and behave as before.

-- 
Ben Cotton
Fedora Program Manager
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis
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