Update Java packaging guidelines to reflect current package names

[Jonathan Underwood]

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.

Cheers,
Jonathan.

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Jonathan Underwood
<jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com&gt; 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.

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> >>>> "NK" == Nico Kadel-Garcia
> <nkadel(a)gmail.com&gt; writes: 
NK> Please don't change this for now, until RHEL 8 is in the pipeline.

I'm not entirely sure what RHEL8 and Red Hat's plans for it have to do
with Fedora packaging guidelines; all supported Fedora releases have the
javapackages-tools package.  I don't think Fedora would necessary know
when RHEL8 is "in the pipeline" since Red Hat doesn't usually share
their plans for such things.

I don't know about what EPEL has, but I suggest that someone simply add
an empty javapackages-tools package that depends on jpacakage-utils if
necessary.

 - J<

[Mat Booth]

On 30 March 2015 at 01:17, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu&gt; wrote:

>  >>>>> "NK" == Nico Kadel-Garcia
> <nkadel(a)gmail.com&gt; writes:
>
>  NK> Please don't change this for now, until RHEL 8 is in the pipeline.
>
>  I'm not entirely sure what RHEL8 and Red Hat's plans for it have to do
>  with Fedora packaging guidelines; all supported Fedora releases have the
>  javapackages-tools package.  I don't think Fedora would necessary know
>  when RHEL8 is "in the pipeline" since Red Hat doesn't usually share
>  their plans for such things.
>
>  I don't know about what EPEL has, but I suggest that someone simply add
>  an empty javapackages-tools package that depends on jpacakage-utils if
>  necessary.
>
>   - J<
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RHEL7 already has javapackages-tools, no?

$ sudo repoquery --repoid=rhel-7-workstation-rpms --whatprovides
jpackage-utils
javapackages-tools-0:3.4.1-5.el7.noarch
javapackages-tools-0:3.4.1-6.el7_0.noarch


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