[fedora-java] Packaging of ObjectWeb ASM
Mikolaj Izdebski
mizdebsk at redhat.com
Wed Nov 13 11:43:25 UTC 2013
On 11/11/2013 03:49 PM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> 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
>
As no one had any objections I am going to proceed to implement this
plan. objectweb-asm3 is already available in rawhide, so you can
already start using it.
Because this update possibly affects 76 source packages, some of which
are not Java-specific, I am going to announce this update on devel to
reach wider audience.
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Mikolaj Izdebski
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