Comment 66 for bug 427539

I have now built and tested several maven projects under all of my three systems: karmic production, minimal karmic schroot and lucid schroot.

All of them worked exactly as expected. As far as I am concerned, the latest maven2 distributions are acceptable. My evidence suggests that the original bug report (mvn --help crashes) should be closed. The most likely cause of the crashes is incompatible back-level ~/.m2/repository/ cache.

I do not think there is a strong case for the package installation script to wipe out the cache - unless this action is recommended by the maven development team. I will leave that issue for Matthius to make a decision.

Thanks for your help, Matthius! I am sorry that so many of us maven users doubted the quality of your package.