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Description of problem: eclipse-nls-zh_TW 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-nls 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-nls-zh_TW, 39 other binary packages built from eclipse-nls source package seem to install files into wrong location. The full list is is: * eclipse-nls-ar * eclipse-nls-bg * eclipse-nls-ca * eclipse-nls-cs * eclipse-nls-da * eclipse-nls-de * eclipse-nls-el * eclipse-nls-en_AA * eclipse-nls-en_AU * eclipse-nls-en_CA * eclipse-nls-es * eclipse-nls-et * eclipse-nls-fa * eclipse-nls-fi * eclipse-nls-fr * eclipse-nls-he * eclipse-nls-hi * eclipse-nls-hu * eclipse-nls-id * eclipse-nls-it * eclipse-nls-ja * eclipse-nls-ko * eclipse-nls-ku * eclipse-nls-mn * eclipse-nls-nl * eclipse-nls-no * eclipse-nls-pl * eclipse-nls-pt * eclipse-nls-pt_BR * eclipse-nls-ro * eclipse-nls-ru * eclipse-nls-sk * eclipse-nls-sl * eclipse-nls-sq * eclipse-nls-sr * eclipse-nls-sv * eclipse-nls-tr * eclipse-nls-uk * eclipse-nls-zh * eclipse-nls-zh_TW 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-nls-ar eclipse-nls-bg eclipse-nls-ca eclipse-nls-cs eclipse-nls-da eclipse-nls-de eclipse-nls-el eclipse-nls-en_AA eclipse-nls-en_AU eclipse-nls-en_CA eclipse-nls-es eclipse-nls-et eclipse-nls-fa eclipse-nls-fi eclipse-nls-fr eclipse-nls-he eclipse-nls-hi eclipse-nls-hu eclipse-nls-id eclipse-nls-it eclipse-nls-ja eclipse-nls-ko eclipse-nls-ku eclipse-nls-mn eclipse-nls-nl eclipse-nls-no eclipse-nls-pl eclipse-nls-pt eclipse-nls-pt_BR eclipse-nls-ro eclipse-nls-ru eclipse-nls-sk eclipse-nls-sl eclipse-nls-sq eclipse-nls-sr eclipse-nls-sv eclipse-nls-tr eclipse-nls-uk eclipse-nls-zh eclipse-nls-zh_TW | grep '\.jar$' | grep -v /usr/share/java | grep -v /usr/lib/java Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.2.0.v20121120043402-2 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.