java, *.src.jar packaging

[Jan Rękorajski]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Paweł Zuzelski wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> sometimes it is convenient to have java sources (.src.jar file)
> installed. These files act as documentation. They are used by IDEs
> together with javadoc for completion, hilithing etc.
> 
> I would like to add -source subpackage to some java libraries.
> 
> My question is: where to install .src.jar files?
> 
>  1. to /usr/share/java - but there is already to many files
> 
>  2. to %{_docdir} (/usr/share/doc/%{name}-source) - I don't think
>     it's a good idea
> 
>  3. create new directory, like /usr/share/javasrc - Needs
>     modification in packages that provides jdk
> 
> As far as I know other distros don't package these files at all, so
> there is no convention to follow.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSRCSOURCECODE

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