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. -- Mikolaj Izdebski IRC: mizdebsk -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
