We just released a new version of the maven-packaging-plugin which provides some nice new features for deb-packaging.

We implemented two new (experimental) goals for signing deb-packages and deploying them to an APT-repository using standard debian tools.

Furthermore we extended the configuration-possibilities for defining dependencies of debian-packages: In addition to declaring absolute dependencies you can now also define strong and weak dependencies as well as conflicting or virtual packages.

Last but not least we added a package-map for current Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

For a complete list see the Changelog [1].

[1] http://wiki.evolvis.org/mvn-pkg-plugin/index.php/Changelog