* Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx> [2008-03-26 11:22]:
> * Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> [2008-03-26 10:21]:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 10:14 -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> >
> > > Are you satisfied with Nicolas' answer on this one?
> >
> > I'd still prefer a rewording there, to clearly state that if/when the
> > two documents are in conflict, the Fedora Java Guidelines win.
>
> Done. Let me know if it's not good enough.
>
> > > > 8. "%{_jnidir} usually expands into /usr/lib/java." This should probably
> > > > be %{_libdir}/java.
> > >
> > > I'd like Tom to comment here but I'm not sure multilib-ifying
> > > jpackage-utils is possible right now.
> >
> > Is nothing in the Java space multilib? If not, maybe we can let this
> > slide as is, but I suspect lots of Java stuff is multilib, and we need
> > to get this fixed.
>
> Java stuff is noarch, normally. Existing packages that are built with
> gcj have lots of workarounds to deal with multilib issues
> (brp-repack-jars; the unpacking and repacking of jars to set the
> creation dates to 1980-01-01 at the end of eclipse.spec, etc.). It will
> be nice to fix these issues and having OpenJDK JIT support on more
> arches will help.
>
> fitzsim, any more thoughts here?
>
> > > > 10. It might also be worthwhile to do an "ant" spec template and a
> > > > "maven" spec template. I'm not sure how different these two packaging
> > > > types would be, but the guidelines seem to imply significant
> > > > differences.
> > >
> > > Do the other messages in this thread satisfy you that this isn't worth
> > > it?
> >
> > To be honest, no. If we're going to have maven based packages, I would
> > feel much better about having an example template.
>
> Deepak, can you do a maven one? I really think doing an ant one is a
> waste of time (and the main template uses ant anyway).
>
Sure. I will write one up later today and put it on the wiki.
Deepak
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