[fedora-java] Strange new build failures

[Jiri Vanek]

On 04/16/2015 09:16 AM, Mat Booth wrote:
> On 16 April 2015 at 07:49, Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com <mailto:jvanek at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 04/16/2015 08:43 AM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
>
>         On 04/15/2015 08:01 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
>
>             Yes. We removed a patch in Rawhide that was diverging from upstream. Now
>             Fedora's OpenJDK 8 is more like upstream OpenJDK 8 and (proprietary)
>             Oracle Java 8.
>
>
>         This change broke quite many packages.
>
>         I will workaround this in XMvn by forcing doclint to be skipped in
>         executions of javadoc:aggregate MOJOs.
>
>         Packages not built with Maven will have to be fixed manually by either
>         adding -Xdoclint:none or skipping generating javadocs.
>
>
>     Or fixing the javadocs in packages?
>
>
> Unfortunately, the sheer number of javadoc fixes needed in Fedora and the very few resources we have
> prohibits this approach.

430? Split it among 50 people and you are done :)
I think in closes surrounding you ill find at least 10.
>
> (I for one, certainly don't have time to fix javadoc errors -- thanks Mikolaj for adding workaround
> in xmvn.)

I would discourage from it. It is just another divergence from upstreams. But well. why not...
>
>     The patch have been in rpms for pretty long time. I think it really is time to fix the packages...
>
>     If you can, feel free to send me some reasonable amount of packages and I will help with fixing
>
>
> This is probably a good place to start:
> http://koschei.cloud.fedoraproject.org/groups/java?order_by=state%2Cname
>
> I warn you it is no small task.

It need higher then small number of people to fix it.
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>
>     J.
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