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? > > 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)? Amazing -- I never even imagined that such a thing as an annotation-only package might exist! The guidelines are intended to allow reasonable people to interpret them sensibly. In this case, AOT-compiling wouldn't hurt but wouldn't be of much benefit, so I don't think it matters. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
