[[e-mail]: Java package maintainers, please, add missing requires to your packages.]

[Andrew Overholt]

----- Forwarded message from Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com&gt; -----

>  Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:31:10 +0300
>  From: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  To: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Subject: Java package maintainers, please, add missing requires to your
>  	packages.
>  
>  Hello All!
>  
>  Recently I (re)started to package some big java application, and as
>  one of side effect of this work, I take a closer look on current state
>  of java packages in Fedora and I was disappointed with what I saw
>  here.
>  
>  Quick summary - many java packages does not obey Fedora Packaging
>  Guidelines in case of owning a directories, already owned by other
>  packages.
>  
>  As a result - some packages owns %{_javadir}, some - %{_javadocdir},
>  some - own directories with maven-related stuff. This mess must be
>  fixed!
>  
>  Please, take a closer look at your spec-files and
>  
>  a) Add Requires jpackage-utils to main package's header if your
>  package stores something in %{_javadir}
>  b) Add Requires jpackage-utils to *-javadoc subpackage's header if you
>  store something in %{_javadocdir}
>  c) Do NOT own %{_javadir} - e.g. do NOT list bare directory
>  %{_javadir} in %files section. Instead use something like
>  %{_javadir}/*
>  d) The same rule applies for /usr/share/maven2, /etc/maven/fragments (
>  %{_mavendepmapfragdir} ) and /usr/share/maven2/poms ( %{_mavenpomdir}
>  ) and other  - these two already owned by jpackage-utils.
>  e) Check for other directories, already owned by other packages. Foe
>  example, take a look at the "rpm -ql jpackage-utils" and you'll see
>  the list of directories, owned by this package - these directories can
>  NOT be owned by other packages. Add proper Requires instead.
>  
>  I already fixed some packages, byt there are lots of them remaining.
>  For example, very often people forgot to add "Requires:
>  jpackage-utils"  to *-javadoc.
>  
>  Please, do NOT fix packages ONLY in Rawhide (as some of us do usually)
>  - proposed fixes doesn't ruin ABI or API compatibility, and should be
>  applied in every active branch.
>  
>  Please, keep in mind that adding Requires(post) and Requires(postun)
>  is not the same as adding Requires. One could easily remove packages,
>  listed in Requires(post|postun), and your package should work and
>  whole filesystem tree should remain consistent (I mean every directory
>  should have their respective owner). Thus, enlisting jpackage-utils in
>  Requires(post) only is not enough if you store something in
>  %{_javadir}.
>  
>  Thank you for your attention!
>  
>  -- 
>  With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.
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