A new major version (2.0.0) of Java Packages Tools (javapackages) has just been released. Java Packages Tools is a collection of all kind tools, script and macros to support packaging Java. Starting from version 2.0.0 Java Packages Tools includes functionality of JPackage Utilities (jpackage-utils) that is useful for Fedora. This will allow jpackage-utils package to be obsoleted and provided by javapackages-tools (see below for more detailed explanation). %add_maven_depmap macro now injects pom.properties to every JAR file it processes. This will allow XMVn Subst to be used to replace any JAR files that are in system Maven repository, not only those built with Maven. It will allow xmvn-subst to be effectively used to replace bundled JARs with symlinks after package built, which will allow simplification of packages containing complex symlinking in %install sections (for example jboss-as) as well as many Eclipse plugins. %add_to_maven_depmap and %update_maven_depmap macros were removed. These macros have been obsolete for long time. Their usage was preventing Fedora from implementing some features related to Maven metadata. Packages using these macros will have to be ported to use %add_maven_depmap or they will fail to build. maven2jpp-mapdeps.xsl template has been removed. This template wasn't been used. XMvn has its own way of mapping dependencies. To best of my knowledge nothing in Fedora used this template. Macros related to installation of icons and desktop files were removed. These legacy macros were out of scope of Java Packages Tools -- standard Fedora macros should be used instead. 14 new manual pages were added. These manpages document RPM macros (such ad %pom_* macros) and commands related to packaging Java. More manual pages are planned in future. Documentation specific to JPackage and irrelevant to fedora was removed. Most notably this requires Jpackage policy -- in Fedora packaging guidelines should be followed instead. Reasons for merging jpackage-utils into javapackages-tools ---------------------------------------------------------- In Fedora jpackage-utils was based on old version (year 2006) coming from JPackage. It included a number of fedora-specific patches which weren't accepted by upstream. Java Packages Tools was a project founded by Fedora developers to maintain Fedora-specific macros and various helper scripts. The most important reasons for merging them follow: 1) These two packages had the same purpose and were strong components -- jpackage-utils required javapackages-tools and vice versa. 2) jpackage-utils contained some legacy code which was preventing Fedora from implementing new features. This code couldn't be removed because heavy diversion from upstream is discouraged. 3) jpackage-utils didn't have update to new upstream version for 7 years -- it was de-facto maintained by Fedora developers. Removing custom patchsets from our packages allows for better separation of upstream code from RPM packaging and simplifies overall maintenance. The new Java Package Tools haven't yet been built for rawhide, but I am going to do this today. The new jpackage-utils is going to obsolete and provide jpackage-utils. -- Mikolaj Izdebski Software Engineer, Red Hat IRC: mizdebsk -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
