MySQL Bugs: #28512: Please consider having a source release without bundled jars

Bug #28512	Please consider having a source release without bundled jars
Submitted:	18 May 2007 9:04	Modified:	25 Mar 2022 0:08
Reporter:	Petteri Räty	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	Connector / J	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.0.6	OS:	Linux
Assigned to:	Alexander Soklakov	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/wiki/How_to_be_a_good_upstream

How to repeat:
Download the source archive and:
>>> Unpacking mysql-connector-java-5.0.6.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/jdbc-mysql-5.0.6/work
 * Applying do-not-filter-png.diff ...                                                                                                                                                                 [ ok ]
 * Applying 5.0.5-remove-jboss-dependency-from-tests.patch ...                                                                                                                                         [ ok ]
 * Applying 5.0.5-dist-target-depends.patch ...                                                                                                                                                        [ ok ]
removed `mysql-connector-java-5.0.6-bin.jar'
removed `debug/mysql-connector-java-5.0.6-bin-g.jar'
Changing ignoresystemclasses to true for available tasks
Rewriting build.xml
removed `ant-contrib.jar'
removed `aspectjrt.jar'
removed `aspectjtools.jar'
removed `c3p0-0.9.1-pre6.jar'
removed `commons-logging.jar'
removed `jboss-common-jdbc-wrapper.jar'
removed `jdbc2_0-stdext.jar'
removed `jta-spec1_0_1.jar'
removed `junit.jar'
removed `log4j-1.2.9.jar'
>>> Source unpacked.

Suggested fix:
Please provide a bundle without these dependencies for Linux distributions because we have package management to take care of these being in the system. We can redo the tarballs of course but prefer using pristine upstream releases. From your source releases (8.3M) almost all is bundled dependencies. Here is what I got after removing them and recompressing:

betelgeuse@pena /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/jdbc-mysql-5.0.6 $ du -sh my.tar.bz2
921K    my.tar.bz2

Thank you for a reasonable feature request.

Any news on this? As a Fedora package maintainer of Connector/J, I would like to support this request.

Hi Milos, let me see what Mark will say.

Posted by developer:
 
The mysql-connector-java-x.x.x-sources.jar is available in maven repository since Connector/J 5.1.21 version.