On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:38:51 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Jason Corley wrote: > >> Nicolas, I believe you're wrong. I can't find a single revision by devrim that syncs from the JPackage spec[1]_ to the Fedora spec. > > > > Yes if you focus only on the current maintainer's history of > > collaboration with JPackage you won't find any. However the following > > shows what used to happen: > > > I don't dispute that. But I am saying that a new maintainer took over > the package. So there was no history of sharing changes with JPackage > there. Continuity doesn't follow the package because there is no policy > or guideline that says that java packages have a special relationship > with JPackage. the maintainer was just following the best practices > that they had established by working on other packages in Fedora. > > Fedora is a community of packagers. Those packagers have different > styles of packaging and working. Where we need to, we unite those > styles with Packaging Guidelines and FESCo Policies. Until we have a > policy that specifies that certain classes of packages must use JPackage > as upstream this kind of thing will happen as packages go through > different maintainers. In addition to my earlier comment: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/JPackagePolicy [...] Fedora includes a set of open source Java RPM packages that originate from the JPackage repository (www.jpackage.org). Currently, these packages are marked with a "jpp" tag: javacc-4.0-3jpp.3.src.rpm These packages are rebuilt against Fedora's gcc and included in Fedora. They use the "jpp" tag for three main technical reasons: * to help manage upgrading packages from Fedora to JPackage and back * to track package hierarchy (this Fedora Java package came from that JPackage Java package) -snip- You break with these two "main technical reasons" if you put "jpp" in the evr only for the third technical reason (i.e. "group operations"). -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
