Java Library Housekeeping

Current Update (01/03/2011):

 * FFE approved for merge of groovy from Debian; merge uploaded and pending archive-admin poke for new MIR dependencies.
 * Resolved FTBFS for jug; branch proposed.
 * Starting to document as bugs packages which we can't sync due to maven+ not being in main (for UDS-O)

Previous Update:

 * MIR's to support sync of groovy from debian took much longer than expected; finally chased through with 50 minutes to spare from FF.
 * Unfortunately the sync + patch from Debian did not make it in time; sponsor had a power cut at just the wrong time which mean't it did not catch FF cutoff.
 * FFe may be raised; need to discuss with Daviey (added to work-items)

Previous Update:

* Pushiing for 70+ MIR's at this point in the release cycle to support one Java library in main does not make a huge amount of sense.
* The key dependency in main is through eucalyptus - however newer versions of jython require this so will also be blocked

From ideas pool:

 * Java housekeeping spec

Topics for discussion:

* Agree policy on re-mediation activity in main for build from source issues (see FTBFS for spring-2.5 due to late changes in libcommons-file-upload to resolve FTBFS due to dependencies on universe.
* Agree policy on enabling unit testing in build processes
  * Contributing factors:
    * Age of packaged library and activity in upstream projects.
    * Value to build process; i.e. unit testing actually does unit testing (see asm for an example)
    * Complexity and dependencies when enabled (for example database required for c3p0 testing).
* Agree approach/policy to variant libraries to support Java application packaging.
* Time for maven-debian-helper into main?

Natty work:

* File MIR (libportlet-spec-2.0)and revert changes to re-enable portlet API support in libcommons-file-upload, revert changes to spring in universe to re-align to debian and remove libcommons-file-upload-universe.
* File MIR's (libxmlbeans-java, libsaxonb-java ) and revert changes to rhino to restore E4X support.
* File MIR's (jansi, jansi-native, hawtjni) and upgrade groovy to latest debian version (1.7.4-1).
* Merge antlr3-3.2 (build dependency on Maven so potential for many MIR's).
* Merge jython2.5.1-2 (and file MIR's to support).

* "tomcat6 -> ant-trax -> ant1.7-optional -> ant1.7 MIR is needed" solution (bug 662588)

Work items for natty-alpha-1:
[james-page] Calculate cost for moving maven + debian helper to main (75 packages to main): DONE
[ttx] - Submit "no updates after debianimportfreeze" policy as a discussion on ubuntu-dev: DONE
[james-page] Fix the tomcat ant compatibility issue: DONE
[james-page] Fix xmlbeans with manual build to resolve self dependency: DONE
[james-page] MIR for xmlbeans: DONE
[james-page] MIR for saxonb: DONE
[james-page] MIR for hessian to fix FTBFS for libmx4j-java: DONE

Work items for natty-alpha-3:
[james-page] MIR for jansi (<- groovy): DONE
[james-page] MIR for hawtjni (<- groovy): DONE
[james-page] MIR for jansi-native (<- groovy): DONE
[james-page] FFe for sync of groovy from Debian: DONE

Work items for ubuntu-11.04-beta-1:
[james-page] Update Java packaging part of Ubuntu wiki/java-common to describe policy of fixing in main for feature disablement: DONE

Work items:
[james-page] Rename libcommons-file-upload (main) -> libcommons-file-upload-main and update dependencies: POSTPONED
[james-page] Rename libcommons-file-upload-universe (universe) -> libcommons-file-upload and update dependencies: POSTPONED
[james-page] Merge jython2.5.1-2 (dependent on antlr3 >= 3.1): POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR for libjna-java (<- jython2.5.1-2): POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR for libjna-posix-java (<- jython2.5.1-2): POSTPONED
[james-page] Merge antlr3-3.2 (requires maven for build an is in main - see below): POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR antlr-maven-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR batik: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR classworlds: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR clirr: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR commons-configuration: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR doxia: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR doxia-sitetools: POSTPONED
[james-page] Update fop packaging to use libservlet2.5-java: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR fop: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR ganymed-ssh2: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR jtidy: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR libcommons-digester-java: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR libcommons-net2-java: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR libcommons-validator-java: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR libitext1-java: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR libplexus-utils: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR libxbean-java: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-antrun-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-archiver: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-clean-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-compiler-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-debian-helper: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-dependency-tree: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-doxia-tools: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-file-management: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-filtering: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-install-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-invoker: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-invoker-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-jar-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-javadoc-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-plugin-testing: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-plugin-tools: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-reporting-impl: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-resources-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-scm: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-shade-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-shared-io: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven-site-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven2: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR maven2-core: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR modello: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR modello-maven-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR nekohtml: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR netbeans-cvsclient: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-ant-factory: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-archiver: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-bsh-factory: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-build-api: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-cdc: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-cipher: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-classworlds: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-cli: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-compiler-api: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-compiler-javac: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-compiler-manager: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-component-api: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-component-metadata: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-container-default: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-containers: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-digest: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-i18n: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-interactivity-api: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-interpolation: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-io: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-maven-plugin: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-sec-dispatcher: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR plexus-velocity: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR surefire: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR velocity: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR wagon: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR werken.xpath: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR xml-commons-external: POSTPONED
[james-page] MIR xmlgraphics-commons: POSTPONED