Re: [fedora-java] Handling missing maven-metadata
Now, I have a package which depends on rxtx, which basically is a
jar
file without %add_maven_depmap. Since I use maven myself, I need that
info which %add_maven_depmap otherwise provides.
So, what do I do? I have tried to figure out away to provide that info
myself, but I'm too dumb. Should I file a bug against rxtx, with a
%add_maven_depmap patch? Or?
There's a bit of a learning curve to these tools, and some are even
specific to Fedora because of our requirements.
You could definitely file a bug asking for rxtx to be packaged with
some maven metadata as part of their build. %add_maven_depmap is
deprecated and %mvn_artifact/%mvn_install [1] should be used in place.
I could see maintainers being a slightly reluctant to grow the
BuildRequires to things like javapackages-local, and xmvn but it seems
like the right thing to do.
I was thinking of some other solutions like creating your own pom for
rxtx, and just placing it along with the jar into the reactor cache
so that you can resolve it for the build. However your poms still
wouldn't be able to resolve rxtx if some other package were to
depend on you, so I would see this as a last resort.
Cheers,
--
Roland Grunberg
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/released/javapackages/doc/#_add_maven_depmap_mac...