[fedora-java] New Java guidelines

Mikolaj Izdebski mizdebsk at redhat.com
Wed Feb 27 16:07:07 UTC 2013


> > I think we are talking about packages that already have POMs. Maven
> > unaware packages can still install stuff in %_javadir.
> 
> Well, we speak about cases where the fedora package has a pom.xml.
> Many times it's simply picked from maven central and has nothing to
> do with the upstream maintainers (many times this poms are plain
> wrong too). And this causes problems - ant, rhino, ecj, etc. - we
> fought problems with all of their maven central pom.xml files (some
> of them e.g. ant ship their proper pom.xml files now, but many
> don't).

Any bugs in package POM files should be fixed on per-package basis and
should not prevent clean and legitimate POMs from doing things like
forming Maven repository.

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Mikolaj Izdebski


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