Hi Jerry,
Closing as notabug is perfectly valid solution in your case. I also have a bunch of such
packages myself. The thing is that there is no way for this to have been known by the
automated tool thus we end up with such false positives. I have to also add that the
percentage of false positives from my list is not big thus I find it acceptable on the
path to cleaner installs.
Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry James" <loganjerry(a)gmail.com>
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
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Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 6:31:22 PM
Subject: Java headless bugs
I've got a few comments and questions about the recently filed bugs asking us
to switch from Requires: java to Requires: java-headless. First, the bugs
list some web pages to view for more information. Number two on that list is
this:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java\#BuildRequires_and_Requires
which has a really unfortunate backslash in it. People clicking on that link
get a "sorry, no such page" message from the web server. It should have been
this:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java#BuildRequires_and_Requires
Second, the bugs talk about this as a proposed guidelines change, yet
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java now talks about it. Doesn't
that mean that this is an official guideline, not a proposed change to the
official gudelines?
Third, developers are offered two options in those bugs: (1) don't do
anything and an automatic tool will make the change for you on or after
March 17, or (2) make the change to java-headless yourself. I have one
package for which I need a third option: tell the automated tool that this
bug was filed in error, the package really doesn't work with java-headless,
and don't touch the package. I realize that I can mark the bug as assigned
and leave it open indefinitely, but I'd rather have some option for closing
the bug, please.
Slightly off-topic: fedora-review is telling packagers NOT to add "Requires:
jpackage-utils" to javadoc subpackages because that is added automatically,
but I see no mention of this on
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java .
Thanks,
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Jerry James
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