----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikolaj Izdebski" <mizdebsk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:09:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Ant provides cleanup
>
> On 04/22/2013 01:01 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> > Ant was shipping with virtual provides for certain dead subpackages for few
> > years already. As software collections are more and more common nowadays
> > it was high time to drop them so collections don't interfere with base
> > platform.
> > The two most problems packages might see FTBFS due to no longer available
> > ant-trax and/or ant-nodeps - both were merged into main ant.jar since
> > version 1.8.2 (December 27th, 2010). If your package built just fine up to
> > now but fails due to these changes the fix should be just replacing
> > BuildRequires: ant-[nodeps,trax] with BuildRequires: ant.
> > P.S. If you see a problem but you don't have the time or power to change it
> > - let me know and I'll use my proven packager to fix it.
>
> According to my query there are more than 40 packages affected by
> removal of these provides, so it's probably better if we automatically
> migrate Requires/BuildRequires from ant-{trax,nodeps} to ant.
I agree with you. But doing smth that early in the release cycle should make people look at their specs and usually this means fixing more than that. So let's give some time to maintainers to fix their stuff. Probably fix whatever is left once F-19 is out ?
Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team
>
> Requires anx-trax:
> (none)
>
> BuildRequires ant-trax:
> bsh
> freemind
> jing-trang
> jna
> nailgun
> netbeans-platform
> saxpath
> xmlunit
>
> Requires ant-nodeps:
> lancet
>
> BuildRequires ant-nodeps:
> CardManager
> appframework
> axis
> batik
> beansbinding
> bluecove
> bolzplatz2006
> cambozola
> clapham
> diveintopython
> freecol
> freemarker
> freemind
> gridengine
> guava
> ice
> jaffl
> java-1.7.0-openjdk
> java-service-wrapper
> javahelp2
> jffi
> jna
> jnr-netdb
> jpanoramamaker
> libbase
> libfonts
> libformula
> libloader
> librepository
> libserializer
> maven-doxia
> maven-gpg-plugin
> netbeans-javaparser
> netbeans-svnclientadapter
> opengrok
> pentaho-libxml
> ritopt
> skinlf
> swingx
> tomcat
> tuxguitar
>
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