On Thursday 01 February 2007 02:39, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Exactly this is the point, I am asking: Why explicitly care about jpp? The reason we explicitly care about jpackage is because our (Red Hat's) java folks do _all_ of their packaging upstream at jpackage, and just import the results downstream within RHEL and Fedora. This workflow allows them to manage far more java packages than if they were to do it on their own within RH/Fedora. We would like to enable them to continue this, with jpackage being the defacto standard for java packaging, we just import what they do as other distributions can and do. There isn't much that prevents other packagers from doing this with their upstreams, so long as they adhere to the guidelines. We had to create some special cases for jpackage due to how their upstream works and a somewhat unresolvable clash with our guidelines. We'd rather not have to do this, but in this case it seemed unavoidable. Personally I don't like it, and I'll fight tooth/nail against any further exceptions like this, but I did see the need for us to have java packages in Fedora. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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