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Description of problem: eclipse-mylyn-versions-subclipse package is installing JAR files into wrong locations. According to Java packaging guidelines[1] all architecture-independent JAR files MUST go into %{_javadir} or a Java-version specific directory %{_javadir}-* as appropriate and JAR files using JNI or containing JNI shared objects themselves MUST be placed in %{_jnidir}. eclipse-mylyn package violates that guidelines by installing JAR files into other directories. If JAR were put into some non-standard directory for technical reasons then these JARs should be moved to proper locations (as described in the guidelines[1]) and symbolic links can be placed in the previous location. Besides eclipse-mylyn-versions-subclipse, 18 other binary packages built from eclipse-mylyn source package seem to install files into wrong location. The full list is is: * eclipse-mylyn * eclipse-mylyn-builds * eclipse-mylyn-builds-hudson * eclipse-mylyn-context-cdt * eclipse-mylyn-context-java * eclipse-mylyn-context-pde * eclipse-mylyn-context-team * eclipse-mylyn-docs-epub * eclipse-mylyn-docs-htmltext * eclipse-mylyn-docs-wikitext * eclipse-mylyn-ide * eclipse-mylyn-sdk * eclipse-mylyn-tasks-bugzilla * eclipse-mylyn-tasks-trac * eclipse-mylyn-tasks-web * eclipse-mylyn-versions * eclipse-mylyn-versions-cvs * eclipse-mylyn-versions-git * eclipse-mylyn-versions-subclipse I am not going to attach the full list of JAR files, but this list can be obtained using repoquery: repoquery --repoid rawhide -l eclipse-mylyn eclipse-mylyn-builds eclipse-mylyn-builds-hudson eclipse-mylyn-context-cdt eclipse-mylyn-context-java eclipse-mylyn-context-pde eclipse-mylyn-context-team eclipse-mylyn-docs-epub eclipse-mylyn-docs-htmltext eclipse-mylyn-docs-wikitext eclipse-mylyn-ide eclipse-mylyn-sdk eclipse-mylyn-tasks-bugzilla eclipse-mylyn-tasks-trac eclipse-mylyn-tasks-web eclipse-mylyn-versions eclipse-mylyn-versions-cvs eclipse-mylyn-versions-git eclipse-mylyn-versions-subclipse | grep '\.jar$' | grep -v /usr/share/java | grep -v /usr/lib/java Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.9.0-0.1.gitf9e1cd Additional info: [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines
I was not aware that the separate Eclipse guidelines was officially approved packaging guidelines. See comment in bug#923270 for more details. Because of the above I am closing this bug now.