Bug 1015123

Created attachment 839672 [details]
maven-release-ftbfs.patch

This is probably completely broken. But may work depending on
how the toString output is done, and how string'able it is.
I am not a java programmer, just some guessing around and
checking stackoverflow related suggestions of how to convert
a string back to a hash map (basically it is said to not do it),
but apparently previously it used some weird type punning to
pass around a HashMap pointer as a String
(or vice versa).

Created attachment 841063 [details]
maven-release-ftbfs.patch

This one should be better, and theoretically should not
change behaviour from when it was building... It basically
should defers type cast error to runtime, but I did not
add exception handling in case there are failures.

Well, I am just trying to "bootstrap" a java stack based on
Fedora packages on another distribution...

(In reply to Paulo Andrade from comment #2)
> Created attachment 841063 [details]
> maven-release-ftbfs.patch
> 
> This one should be better, and theoretically should not
> change behaviour from when it was building... It basically
> should defers type cast error to runtime, but I did not
> add exception handling in case there are failures.

The second patch looks OK.  I am not maintainer of maven-release and I have limited time, so it would be very helpful if you could follow rule described in [1] when preparing a patch.

> Well, I am just trying to "bootstrap" a java stack based on
> Fedora packages on another distribution...

Out of curiosity, which distro?

Also feel free to join #java-devel on Freenode.  Asking questions there usually will be much easier than reporting bugs.  We have regular visitors from other distros there too.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mizdebsk/HowToSubmitPatches

(In reply to Mikolaj Izdebski from comment #3)
> (In reply to Paulo Andrade from comment #2)
> > Created attachment 841063 [details]
> > maven-release-ftbfs.patch
> > 
> > This one should be better, and theoretically should not
> > change behaviour from when it was building... It basically
> > should defers type cast error to runtime, but I did not
> > add exception handling in case there are failures.
> 
> The second patch looks OK.  I am not maintainer of maven-release and I have
> limited time, so it would be very helpful if you could follow rule described
> in [1] when preparing a patch.

  I will try to make a proper patch, but for now I am just using
%if 0%{?fedora}
%else
<<stuff I need different from fedora spec>>>
%endif
But I do not care of having credit for the patch, just showing
what I am using right now, and attempting to have an idea if it
would be usable :-)

> > Well, I am just trying to "bootstrap" a java stack based on
> > Fedora packages on another distribution...
> 
> Out of curiosity, which distro?

  OpenMandriva. Right now I am almost at the point of building
tomcat from sources. But the java stack is a mess of cyclic
dependencies... I did create a javapackages-bootstrap huge
package to inject (most) dependencies in the repositories:

https://abf.rosalinux.ru/openmandriva/javapackages-bootstrap/blob/master/create-spec.pl

and a few other packages were injected using a noarch rpm as source
to break other cyclic deps found later...

> Also feel free to join #java-devel on Freenode.  Asking questions there
> usually will be much easier than reporting bugs.  We have regular visitors
> from other distros there too.

  Is it really #java-devel on Freenode? I found myself alone there,
so I left the room :-)

> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mizdebsk/HowToSubmitPatches

(In reply to Paulo Andrade from comment #4)
> > Also feel free to join #java-devel on Freenode.  Asking questions there
> > usually will be much easier than reporting bugs.  We have regular visitors
> > from other distros there too.
> 
>   Is it really #java-devel on Freenode? I found myself alone there,
> so I left the room :-)

I believe it's #fedora-java (java-devel is our mailing list[1] :-) ) You can subscribe there as well, if you are going to be using (parts of) our java stack it might be useful to know about major changes in advance.

[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel

Created attachment 847160 [details]
0001-fix-rhbz-1015123.patch

This patch should address the recommendations at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mizdebsk/HowToSubmitPatches

I am using this patch in my fedora based java packages
bootstrap for openmandriva.
https://abf.rosalinux.ru/openmandriva/maven-release

Note that I am calling fedora packages "upstream", thus
the "Update to latest upstream release" logs there.

Fixed in maven-release-2.2.1-10

I believe that this bug is fixed in maven-release-2.2.1-10,
which is available in Fedora Rawhide, so I am closing this bug now.

The build containing the fix can be found at Koji:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=502286