One of the packages I'm maintaining, zabbix, has just released a new version with changed java dependencies. See https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-4800 Upstream seems to have responded to requests from debian/fedora, and started depending on a 'android-json' package instead of json-simple. Doing a quick search in eix, I couldn't see any existing gentoo packages with that or similar names. However, I'm not that familiar with json packages or java myself, so I wouldn't know if the package goes by another name. I'm not even sure if continuing to depend on json-simple instead of android-json would be fine. Could someone on the java team please advise?
What i see is: android-json is an implementation to get rid of the JSON license (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958533, Title "Androids rewrite of the evil licensed Json.org") android-json is *NOT* compatible to json-simple: JSONObject from json-simple has 8 public methods, JSONObject from android-json has 51. So even if it may would work now, it will break in the future. Not to mention the different licenses.
OK, zabbix upstream includes a jar file for android-json in its tarball, so I will install that instead of a gentoo android-json pkg until such time as we have an android-json pkg in the tree. My java/json experience isn't enough to maintain an 'android-json' package on my own.
