Bug 101231 – Remove commentary from jarjar ebuild description

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Chris Nokleberg 2005-08-03 10:48:35 UTC]

Whomever first added the dev-java/jarjar ebuild appended "(evil!)" to the
description. While as the author of the library I am hopelessly biased, I
nonetheless hope you will agree that the ebuild description is not the proper
forum for commentary. Thanks, Chris

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Expected description "Reduce Java dependency headaches by repackaging
third-party jars."

[Comment 1 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2005-08-03 11:10:38 UTC]

betelgeuse@pena /usr/portage/dev-java/jarjar $ grep DESCRIPTION *
ChangeLog:  Changed the DESCRIPTION to be neutral. Resolves bug 101231. Thanks
to Chris
jarjar-0.4_p20050105.ebuild:DESCRIPTION="Tool for repackaging third-party jars."
jarjar-0.6.ebuild:DESCRIPTION="Tool for repackaging third-party jars."

reopen if the new description is not good and I will change it. 

[Comment 2 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2005-08-03 11:11:24 UTC]

Sorry, forgot to mark as fixed and sorry about the trouble in the first place. 

[Comment 3 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2005-08-03 11:12:29 UTC]

FYI: The original comment was probably not meant against jarjar itself but the
practice of packaging third party jars, which makes life of Gentoo java
maintainers hard sometimes.

[Comment 4 Thomas Matthijs (RETIRED) 2005-08-03 12:11:47 UTC]

I think you mean 
"hugely increase java dependency headaches by repackaging third-part jars."

[Comment 5 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2005-08-03 12:35:19 UTC]

Background info: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_Java_Policy

[Comment 6 Chris Nokleberg 2005-08-03 12:47:52 UTC]

Well, there aren't too many other solutions when libraries A and B used in the
same application depend on incompatible versions of library C. I understand the
problem bundled code causes for getting bug fixes propagated, but frankly that's
not always the most important consideration.