JakartaCommonsRename

Jakarta-commons rename to apache-commons

This page hosts information about the next rename of jakarta-commons packages[1] to apache-commons[2]. This change should happend in rawhide for Fedora 14.

How

This part should give you information how to rename and rebase your jakarta package to create a new apache one.

• check if new upstream version exists, if so...use it
• rename spec file (pretty obvious eh?)
• add BuildArch: noarch
• replace %define with %global (this policy is newer then jakarta spec files) and define substitute names. For example
  • %global base_name logging
  • %global short_name commons-%{base_name}
• make sure Source0 URL, project URL etc all use macros for name/version of the package
• strip changelog (and create your own stating that this is rename of jakarta- package)
• if you made significant changes to spec file strip JPP license from beginning of the spec file
• add Provides/Obsoletes for package
  • you might need to add new Epoch so that package can replace jakarta-commons version with same version
• be sure to add java-devel to BR/R, otherwise things can fail because normally gcj devel version is pulled in
• build package with maven if there is usable pom.xml file
  • you will need additional R/BR in specfile.
  • in special cases depmap might need to be created (see apache-commons-logging for example)
  • in some cases tests can fail due to various reason. Until maven is updated this can be worked around by adding -Dmaven.test.skip=true to mvn-jpp
• make sure you are creating all needed symlinks in _javadocdir/javadir
• standard packaging guidelines apply of course

Progress

Following table lists packages in jakarta-commons, their cross-dependencies and owners responsible for them. Packages with no dependencies can be renamed immediately. Others should wait for their dependencies to rename first.

Package	Owner	Dependencies	Status
commons-collections	devrim	None	TODO
commons-compress	Red	None	TODO
commons-el	fnasser	None	TODO
commons-codec	mbooth	None	TODO
commons-launcher	mbooth	None	TODO
commons-pool	mbooth	None	TODO
commons-logging	sochotni	None	DONE
commons-discovery	sochotni	logging	ON REVIEW
commons-daemon	sochotni	None	TODO
commons-io	sochotni	None	TODO
commons-fileupload	sochotni	io	TODO
commons-lang	sochotni	None	ON REVIEW
commons-net	sochotni	None	TODO
commons-beanutils	fnasser	collections, logging	TODO
commons-cli	jmrodri	lang, logging	TODO
commons-httpclient	sochotni	codec, logging	TODO
commons-jxpath	fnasser	beanutils, collections, logging	TODO
commons-dbcp	mbooth	collections, pool	TODO
commons-digester	mbooth	beanutils, logging	TODO
commons-modeler	mbooth	beanutils, collections, digester, logging	TODO
commons-validator	mbooth	beanutils, collections, digester, logging	TODO
commons-configuration	fnasser	beanutils, codec, collections, dbcp, digester, jxpath, lang, logging, pool	TODO