Excerpts from Olivier Sallou's message of Sun Aug 21 13:24:16 +0200 2011: > Hi, > I have a question regarding packaging for Fedora. > > > I want to package an application that depends on jets3t. It is packaged in Jpackage. > I see in fact that many Java packages are available in JPackage. > > > What is the usual behavior in this case ? Usual course of action currently is to package it from scratch in Fedora. We have diverged considerably from JPackage over time (especially during last year). On one hand it's bad because we can't copy things from jpackage anymore, but it made several packaging tasks easier. Plus we have more strict rules as far as bundling/licensing reviews are concerned. > Should I check with maintainer if package can be "moved" to Fedora ? (and do it myself if he does not wish to do so) Maintainer of jets3t in JPackage has most likely no relation to Fedora. But you are free to ask obviously :-) > > There are Fedora "core", EPEL, JPackage... it is not really clear for newcomers to see several repository, and what are their relationships... Others have covered this mostly. I'll just add that JPackage is a cross-distro project to create rpm packages for java software. We used to be much closer, but diverged significantly. If you need help with specific java packaging questions feel free to visit #fedora-java on Freenode (or write to java-devel mailing list). -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com
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