On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky
<sochotnicky(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Quoting Michael Schwendt (2013-12-17 13:40:48)
> What about "-javadoc" packages? Generated HTML documentation in noarch
> packages that may be displayed with any HTML viewer.
>
> Here it seems packagers add a dependency on "jpackage-utils" only to
> pull in dependencies that own the /usr/share/javadoc directory. It's
> not jpackage-utils but javapackages-tools that owns it.
>
> # repoquery --whatprovides /usr/share/javadoc
> javapackages-tools-0:3.4.1-1.fc20.noarch
> javapackages-tools-0:3.4.1-1.fc20.noarch
So now you know why they require javapackages-tools (jpackage-utils). They
mostly need if for directory ownership
Maybe they could co-own the directory instead of requiring javapackages-tools.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#The_directory_is_owne...
> # repoquery --whatrequires javapackages-tools|wc -l
> 2559
> # repoquery --whatrequires jpackage-utils|wc -l
> 2557
>
> As a result, one cannot install -javadoc packages without having to
> install dependencies.
>
> Why is it like that? Just to apply the "BuildRequires and Requires"
> guidelines for Java packages also to -javadoc packages?
It's like that because directories have to be owned by some RPM. In this case
that's javapackages-tools
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java#Javadoc_installation
>
> Could we relax the Java packaging guidelines for -javadoc packages, please?
Not unless packaging of javapackages-tools is changed so that directories are
owned by some "java-filesystem" package. We've always had bigger fish to
fry
though so nobody bothers with this. javapackages-tools have negligent dep chain
anyway (python, python-lxml). It's not a simple guideline change, but rather
change of autorequires generator, packaging guideline, rebuild and manual fix of
older packages that do not use autorequires generator. It's doable though, but
very low priority (for me at least)
Besides there are probably still a lot of javadoc packages that pull in main package.
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