[fedora-java] Packaging of ObjectWeb ASM

[Fernando Nasser]

+1

But I am currently busy with some releases at work.  Is there someone who could help with the 
objectweb-asm -> objectweb-asm3 change please?

Regards,
Fernando

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikolaj Izdebski" <mizdebsk at redhat.com>
> To: objectweb-asm-owner at fedoraproject.org, objectweb-asm4-owner at fedoraproject.org, "Fedora Java Development List"
> <java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 9:49:30 AM
> Subject: Packaging of ObjectWeb ASM
> 
> Currently Fedora ships two versions of ObjectWeb ASM -- objectweb-asm
> (version 3.x) and objectweb-asm4 (version 4.x), neither of which are
> compat packages.  About a month ago upstream released version 5.0
> beta
> and we can already start seeing packages requiring this new version.
> Final version 5.0 can be expected soon.
> 
> Currently we can't get rid of ASM 3 as it is required by many
> packages,
> but ASM 4 and ASM 5 should be compatible, so it should be OK for
> Fedora
> to ship just versions 3 and 5.
> 
> My proposal of updating is:
> 
> 1) Create a new package objectweb-asm3 which would be a copy of
> current
> objectweb-asm and would be converted to be a compat package.
> 
> 2) Give some time for maintainers of dependant packages to decide
> whether they want to stay on version 3.x or keep depending on default
> system version (which will be upgraded to 5.x).  The most important
> packages can be ported by interested parties or provenpackagers.
> 
> 3) Update objectweb-asm from version 3.x to version 5.x.  This
> version
> would obsolete and provide objectweb-asm4.
> 
> 4) Deprecate objectweb-asm4 package.
> 
> After these steps are completed, we'll have 2 ASM packages:
> 
> 1) objectweb-asm, ASM version 5.x
>    default provider of ASM (non-compat package)
>    provides, obsoletes: objectweb-asm4
> 
> 2) objectweb-asm3, ASM version 3.x
>    compat package
> 
> What do you think about that? Do you have any better idea how to
> proceed
> with update to ASM 5.x?
> 
> --
> Mikolaj Izdebski
> IRC: mizdebsk
>