[Fedora-packaging] Java guideline inconsistency
Andrew Overholt
overholt at redhat.com
Sat May 9 20:44:11 UTC 2009
* Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> [2009-05-09 13:25]:
> Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> >
> > there seems to be an inconsistency with the Java guidelines:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java#Jar_file_naming states that
> > if the package only contains a single .jar file it should have the same
> > name as the package, but the ant and maven spec file templates
> > install .jar files as
> >
> > cp -p [build path to jar] \
> > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_javadir}/%{name}-%{version}.jar
> >
> I would lean towards Java#Jar_file_naming being clarified but I'm not a
> java guy. Andrew, Fernando, Deepak, someone want to write up a
> clarification of this?
Sure, I'll speak about this with Deepak and others and get something
written up.
> > Also, I find it a bit inconsistent that java packages don't have to have
> > a java- prefix as python, perl, php and so on packages have to.
>
> I do to but I think this is the standard for enough packages that we
> shouldn't look at fixing it unless it's causing breakage.
Agreed. Most (all?) of this stuff came from JPackage and there's little
point in breaking compatibility/naming.
Andrew
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