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Description of problem: eclipse-valgrind 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-linuxtools 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-valgrind, 10 other binary packages built from eclipse-linuxtools source package seem to install files into wrong location. The full list is is: * eclipse-changelog * eclipse-gcov * eclipse-gprof * eclipse-linuxtools * eclipse-manpage * eclipse-oprofile * eclipse-perf * eclipse-rpm-editor * eclipse-rpmstubby * eclipse-systemtap * eclipse-valgrind 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-changelog eclipse-gcov eclipse-gprof eclipse-linuxtools eclipse-manpage eclipse-oprofile eclipse-perf eclipse-rpm-editor eclipse-rpmstubby eclipse-systemtap eclipse-valgrind | grep '\.jar$' | grep -v /usr/share/java | grep -v /usr/lib/java Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.0-5 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.