[fedora-java] Mending the Java native library mess before F10

[Fernando Nasser]

Can't we have the real JAR and the .so in %{_libdir}/%{name} as required 
by the guideline and add a symlink to the JAR (only) in /usr/share/java ?

P.S.: This will get worse with the increase of maven use by projects as 
it is more strict where the dependency "artifacts" are located.  You 
could perhaps change build-classpath to look at other places but it will 
e harder with maven.

David Walluck wrote:
> Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
>> OK, which packages are these errors affecting?  You could add the
>> libreadline-java jar to CLASSPATH after the build-classpath invocation.
> 
> Only libreadline-java is affected right now since that's the only 
> package that I found adhering to the policy.
> 
> So far, all the packages fail in one of two ways: either the package 
> doesn't work with build-classpath, or it doesn't adhere to the policy.
> 
>> In any case I don't think you should change libreadline-java to not
>> follow the packaging guidelines, if that's what you were planning.
> 
> I would tend to agree, but the tools have not been updated to support 
> this configuration. The choice seems to be to change either the tools or 
> any of the packages to conform to the packaging guidelines.
> 
> As it stands now, I am more concerned with breaking existing 
> build-classpath invocations then following the policy since F10 is 
> almost frozen and nothing is consistent.
> 
> Left as-is, you will just get four packages with four different 
> policies, and some of these may break existing builds or scripts.
>