Re: Warning: Removing commons-* symlinks

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On 6 June 2011 18:41,  <spikefedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As some of you may know, apache-commons packages usually install their
> jar(s) to apache-commons-*.jar and provides a symlink named
> commons-*.jar. Some also provide a similar symlink for the javadoc
> directory, some don't.
> The shorter symlink doesn't provides any advantage (at least, I don't
> know any) but causes trouble from time to time (e.g.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447156) and clutters javadir
> and javadocdir. Therefore, I'll remove both the jar and the javadoc
> symlink at least for the apache-commons packages I (co-)maintain.
> Please check you spec file if you are using one of those and adapt
> accordingly. If you are a apache-commons maintainer (Carl, Mat, Mohamed,
> Orion and Sandro), please consider to do the same for your packages or
> let me know if you want me to do it for you.
>
> Regards, Chris
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Feel free to do so on my packages, I'm really bogged down right now. I
can grant you co-maintainership if you need it.


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