* Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs(a)math.uh.edu> [2008-06-28 18:23]:
Sorry for the resend; this should have the correct address for the
java list.
I hope I'm CC'ing this sufficiently; I do not know if any
representatives form the Java group are members of fedora-packaging.
I was reviewing my first maven-using package and ran into an issue
with the Java packaging guidelines. Namely that they specify that
every maven-using package should own /etc/maven/fragments and
/usr/share/maven2/poms, which contradicts our usual policy on
directory ownership by multiple packages.
I don't really understand why the packages would need to own those
directories; jpackage-utils already serves as a kind of filesystem
package for java, it already owns /etc/maven and several
java-related directories in /usr/share, and all of the packages which
would own files in the two directories at issue already depend on it.
So I think jpackage-utils should just own /etc/maven/fragments and
/usr/share/maven2/poms and we can tweak the guidelines to not specify
that the individual packages own these directory.
Another possibility would be to shift this off to a java-filesystem
package analogous to our other *-filesystem packages which could own
these and various other java directories.
I think moving them to jpackage-utils would be sufficient, as it owns a
multitude of other java related directories right now. I have put this
down on my TODO list and will get to it on Monday (off today and
tomorrow).
This would fix ownership issues for 22 packages currently.
Another separate bug related issue is the fact that the contents of
/etc/maven/fragments do not seem to be configuration files, and so
probably should not live under /etc. I do not have sufficient Java
knowledge to propose a solution, however.
Correct, technically they are not configuration related files. I'd be happy to
move them, but I am not sure what the best place for them is either :/ ..
suggestions are welcome. The files serve as configuration in the sense
that they provide maven with a "mapping" between where maven expects
jars to be, and where they actually are on the system.
Cheers,
Deepak