[fedora-java] commons-parent.pom

[Alexander Kurtakov]

> With the encouragement of a couple of people on the list, I'm working
> on updating the jakarta-commons-lang package to version 2.4.  Some
> elements of the spec file that are currently present to work around
> problems can now be done away with, which is great news.  Kudos to
> everybody who worked so hard on the recent maven update.
> 
> I attempted to enable the maven build of jakarta-commons-lang, instead
> of using ant.  The maven build is failing, because of a missing
> org.apache.commons:commons-parent POM.  This POM is already referred
> to by the jakarta-common-io POM, which means that mvn-jpp builds of
> any projects using jakarta-common-io are going to fail.
> (Jakarta-commons-io is built with ant also, which probably hid this
> issue from the maintainer.)
> 
> Does anybody know what should be providing that POM?  Repoquery shows
> that it is not present in Fedora.
> 
> If I'm reading the repo data correctly, it looks like jpackage
> includes this POM in maven2-common-poms.
Yes, it should be in maven2-common-poms. I'll add it tomorrow. Look out for 
newer maven2-common-poms package :).

> 
> One last question: since upstream dropped the "jakarta", are we
> planning to follow suit?

I think we *have* to. But it can be done whenever the maintainer finds the time 
to do it.
> 

Regards,
Alex