[fedora-java] Re: What's the deal with geronimo-specs?

[Mary Ellen Foster]

2009/10/21 Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster at gmail.com>:
> In the course of some other Java stuff, I noticed that the
> geronimo-specs package doesn't include Maven depmaps
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530088). I then decided
> to take a look at the actual SRPM itself to see how hard it would be
> to add things, and it looks like it's actually *very* old (version
> 1.0M2, released in August 2004) and it doesn't actually build from
> source any more on Rawhide (errors about javax.transaction.*).
>
> What's this package for, anyway? Would it hurt anything to package the
> 2.1.4 version (March 2009) instead?

p.s. -- It looks like jpackage has a *much* newer package
(http://jpackage.org/browser/rpm.php?jppversion=5.0&id=7845) that
might be worth importing. I'll check that out now ...

MEF

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