Spec URL: http://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/json.spec SRPM URL: http://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/json-3-9.fc18.src.rpm Description: Java support for the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) lightweight data-interchange format. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. Fedora Account System Username: zbyszek This is a re-review. Previous one was https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495801.
There is one outstanding bug against the json package: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624433 and one bug that bears on the spec file you submitted: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594420 Why do you want to revive this package? It seems like the previous maintainer was pushing people to port to json-lib instead. Since upstream is no longer willing to work on this version you would be left fixing all problems and working on any required enhancements yourself which could potentially be a lot more work.
I would *strongly* recommend against reviving this package. This library used to be free software, but recent releases are non-free (proprietary software) and as such they cannot be included in Fedora. All attempts to convince upstream make free releases failed. While it would be possible to keep maintaining the old (free) version I think it's much better for us to migrate to different JSON libraries. Packaging old unmaintained libraries like this one while there are many alternatives is against one of Fedora goals -- innovation.
Since everybody seems to be convinced that this is a bad idea, I'll put the package on hold for now, and investigate other options (json-lib, android-json-org-java).
android-json-org-java works perfectly, no need for this crap.