[Fedora-packaging] Java guideline inconsistency

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> there seems to be an inconsistency with the Java guidelines:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java#Jar_file_naming states that
> if the package only contains a single .jar file it should have the same
> name as the package, but the ant and maven spec file templates
> install .jar files as
> 
> cp -p [build path to jar]   \
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_javadir}/%{name}-%{version}.jar
> 
I would lean towards Java#Jar_file_naming being clarified but I'm not a
java guy.  Andrew, Fernando, Deepak, someone want to write up a
clarification of this?

> 
> Also, I find it a bit inconsistent that java packages don't have to have
> a java- prefix as python, perl, php and so on packages have to.

I do to but I think this is the standard for enough packages that we
shouldn't look at fixing it unless it's causing breakage.

-Toshio

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