On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 15:35 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > I've just been looking at bug 262401 [1] to see what I need to do to > update it to the new Java packaging guidelines. I have 2 new > questions about the guidelines. > > First, the guidelines say that I must both Requires and Build-Requires > jpackage-utils. This bit of code needs nothing in jpackage-utils that > I can discern. It has no external dependencies, doesn't ship with any > binary blobs, etc. The guidelines say must, so I'll do it, but what > is the rationale? It contains directories you install into, including /usr/share/java. > Second, the GCJ guidelines say, "For Fedora versions < 8, no JDK was > available other than GCJ so GCJ AOT bits MUST be present." This > presents a problem for the package in question, because it consists of > annotations only. They are Java 1.5 annotations, so the GCJ in F7 can > produce the needed class files. But there is no actual code to > compile, so there is nothing for the GCJ AOT bits to do. Can an > exception be granted to annotation-only packages (not that there are > likely to be many of those)? I'd say you can safely ignore this and do what your common sense advises you to do. But I might be wrong :) -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
