On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 5:20 PM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Packagers, > > As some of you might not have been aware, the Stewardship SIG has been > busy keeping the Java stack in fedora alive and working. We're now > left with 0 build failures on all current branches of fedora for our > 235 packages, and no open FTBFS / FTI or known security issues. > > We've also been working on getting the stack more up-to-date again, > since it had been more or less mostly untouched and neglected since > 2017. We managed to reduce the ratio of outdated packages from over > 60% to below 30% (even while slowly increasing the number of packages > we maintain), and the remaining open PRs should get us to ~25%. > > One of the last missing package updates is to upgrade maven from 3.5.2 > to the 3.6 branch. This version is already available from the > stream-maven-3.6 and stream-javapackages-tools-201901 modular > branches, but it has not been available for normal builds and users. > I've worked to "port" the 3.6.1 update to the master branch, and we > have a working package, with a pending pull request: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/maven/pull-request/11 > > I have also triggered test rebuilds of all packages that > (Build)Require maven recursively in any way, *twice* (with the second > run against packages from the first build), and the update does not > cause any new build failures compared to the current state of rawhide: > > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/decathorpe/maven-3.6-pr/monitor/ > > If no new issues pop up (or somebody screams PLEASE NO), I will merge > the PR and push the 3.6.1 update to rawhide next Friday (October 25). > I will then continue to monitor koschei for any unintended / uncaught > issues that may occur (though there shouldn't be any, according to the > test rebuilds). maven 3.6.1 is now in the rawhide buildroot. I'll continue to monitor the situation, but according to our tests, nothing should break. Fabio > The upgrade to maven 3.6 will allow us to do some more package > updates, including xmvn 3.1.0 (already prepared and more or less > ready), and 3.6 is also required by the latest versions of eclipse. > > Also, for now, we'll stick to maven 3.6.1 and evaluate a further > update to 3.6.2 later, but from an initial review it looks like that > version will require some other things to be updated and/or packaged > before we can push it to rawhide. > > Fabio (decathorpe) > Stewardship SIG _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
