[Fedora-packaging] Update Java packaging guidelines to reflect current package names
Nico Kadel-Garcia
nkadel at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 22:04:19 UTC 2015
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Jonathan Underwood
<jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just posted ticket 521 which covers a trivial change to the guidelines:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/521
>
> Currently the packaging guidelines for Java packages say this under the
> BuildRequires and Requires section:
>
> Java binary packages or their dependencies MUST have Requires (generated
> by RPM or manual) on:
>
> java-headless or java-headless >= 1:minimal_required_version
> jpackage-utils
>
> However, on modern Fedora, the jpackage-utils package has been renamed to
> javapackages-tools (which obsoletes and provides jpackage-utils). So,
> moving forward, really the guidelines should be updates to reflect this. I
> propose changing the bullet point which is currently jpackage-utils to
> javapackages-tools. I haven't made a draft for this trivial one word
> change.
Please don't change this for now, until RHEL 8 is in the pipeline.
Treat 'jpackage-utils' as a meta pacakge, to ease backporting to RHEL.
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