does someone know if there is a way to publish an ...

# random

[robstoll]

does someone know if there is a way to publish an artifact under a different name and somehow tell this maven central so that it does not pop-up as new artifact (without the previous versions)?
II would hope that all the dependency update plugins and bots would then recognise the rename and suggest the new version without the need of the user to change the artifact name

[Paul Griffith]

I don’t think so. The whole point of maven central is that the groupid/artifactid is the identifier, so if either of them change, it’s a whole new thing

[Adam S]

you can publish relocation information (apparently - I’ve never tried it)

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/publishing_maven.html#publishing_maven:relocation

[robstoll]

bingo, thanks Adam, I couldn't remember the name, I had in mind that something exists 👍