[Mageia-dev] Adding Java-Policy

Mon Jan 10 15:28:46 CET 2011

Le 10/01/2011 10:36, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
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+> GCJ is not unmaintained, it is part of GCC.
+> See http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/gcc/java/ChangeLog?view=markup
+> 
+> Dropping it would be more work than not dropping it, so I don't see the
+> point.
+> 
+> On 10.01.2011 10:11, Daniel Kreuter wrote:
+>> there
+>> are a few programs depending on it (like a few packages of ant i think)
+> 
+> Ant doesn't depend on it. There are several packages that depend on it,
+> though, yes.
+> 
+>> But writing a policy about the openjdk would be the right thing now
+>> because we will integrate it, it's also in mandriva but without a policy
+>> or Remy didn't find one for that.
+> 
+> Yes.
+>
+
+After spending some hours browsing through mandriva media (inluding contrib and plf) and spec files, I found out that :
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+1) Only 4 packages depend on gcj :
+      - csound-java : a sound and music synthesis system
+      - javasvn : a Pure Java Subversion Client Library (now SVNKit)
+      - opengrok : a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine
+      - tuxguitar : A Multitrack tablature editor and player
+  Only csound-java still requires gcj on Fedora (but not on Ubuntu). All the other are now build using open-jdk on Fedora. Even tuxguitar is now built with openjdk on cooker.
+  Therefore, we can conclude that gcj is not a top priority for Java package policy.
+
+2) Effective Mandriva Java packaging policy is almost the same as Fedora. Btw Fedora java package policy is up to date and very complete. 
+It is written under Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). I was wondering if I can adapt the Fedora policy to Mageia.
+This is allowed by its licence, but I don't know if it is possible or desirable to attribute some Mageia policy stuff to Fedora. Help on this point is welcome.
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