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-/technomancy-lancet-1.0.1-0-g773e48f.tar.gz
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+2015-07-28: Retired because it did not build for two releases
+Reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Deprecate_FTBFS_packages
+
diff --git a/lancet-pom.xml b/lancet-pom.xml
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-
-
- 4.0.0
- lancet
- lancet
- 1.0.1
- lancet
- Dependency-based builds, Clojure Style, with optional Ant underneath.
-
-
- MIT X11 License
-
-
-
- src
- test
-
-
- resources
-
-
-
-
- test-resources
-
-
-
-
-
- central
- http://repo1.maven.org/maven2
-
-
- clojars
- http://clojars.org/repo/
-
-
-
-
- org.apache.ant
- ant
- 1.7.1
-
-
- org.apache.ant
- ant-nodeps
- 1.7.1
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/lancet.spec b/lancet.spec
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-%global author technomancy
-%global groupId lancet
-%global artifactId lancet
-%global archivename %{author}-%{artifactId}
-%global commit_hash 773e48f
-
-Name: %{artifactId}
-Version: 1.0.1
-Release: 10%{?dist}
-Summary: A build tool like Ant or Rake
-
-Group: Development/Languages
-License: EPL
-URL: https://github.com/%{author}/%{name}
-# This is actually lancet 1.0.1; upstream mistagged it
-# No public issue tracker; authors notified in private communication
-# wget --content-disposition %%{url}/tarball/%%{version}
-Source0: %{archivename}-%{version}-0-g%{commit_hash}.tar.gz
-# Generated using Leiningen 1.7.1
-Source1: lancet-pom.xml
-
-BuildArch: noarch
-
-BuildRequires: jpackage-utils >= 1.5
-
-BuildRequires: java-devel >= 1:1.6.0
-
-Requires: jpackage-utils
-%if 0%{?rhel}
-Requires(post): jpackage-utils
-Requires(postun): jpackage-utils
-%endif
-
-Requires: java-devel >= 1:1.6.0
-Requires: ant >= 1.8.2
-
-%description
-Lancet is a build tool like Ant or Rake. Lancet makes it
-easy to create build targets: any Clojure function can be
-a build target. Lancet can call Ant tasks, or shell out
-and call other processes.
-
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n %{archivename}-%{commit_hash}
-cp -p %{SOURCE1} pom.xml
-
-
-%build
-jar cf %{name}.jar -C src .
-
-
-%install
-install -d -m 755 %{buildroot}%{_javadir}
-install -d -m 755 %{buildroot}%{_mavenpomdir}
-install -pm 644 %{name}.jar %{buildroot}%{_javadir}/%{name}.jar
-install -pm 644 pom.xml %{buildroot}%{_mavenpomdir}/JPP-%{name}.pom
-
-
-%if 0%{?add_maven_depmap:1}
-%add_maven_depmap JPP-%{name}.pom %{name}.jar
-%else
-# some systems like RHEL do not have add_maven_depmap defined
-# - probably don't need JPP/%%{name} -- do we?
-%add_to_maven_depmap %{groupId} %{artifactId} %{version} JPP %{name}
-%endif
-
-%clean
-rm -rf %{buildroot}
-
-%if 0%{?rhel}
-%post
-%update_maven_depmap
-
-%postun
-%update_maven_depmap
-%endif
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-%files
-%doc README LICENSE
-%{_mavenpomdir}/*
-%{_mavendepmapfragdir}/*
-%{_javadir}/%{name}.jar
-
-%changelog
-* Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.1-10
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.1-9
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Sun Aug 04 2013 Orcan Ogetbil - 1.0.1-8
-- Removed the Requires: ant-nodeps as the virtual provides was removed from
- ant >= 1.9.
-
-* Sat Aug 03 2013 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.1-7
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.1-6
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.1-5
-- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
-
-* Tue Jun 12 2012 Kushal Das - 1.0.1-4
-- Updated URL and tag information
-
-* Tue Jun 12 2012 Michel Salim - 1.0.1-3
-- Adopt packaging scriptlet from upstream's Debian branch
-- R: java-devel, not java - this is a build tool
-- R: jpackage-utils at runtime
-- Reorganize deps to match layout of Packaging:Java for easy comparison
-- Switch from zip to tarball for smaller file size
-
-* Mon Jun 11 2012 Kushal Das - 1.0.1-2
-- Fixes after review
-
-* Fri Jun 07 2012 Kushal Das - 1.0.1-1
-- initial version
-
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-e751cef98c693647b3da3dea18e9b94c technomancy-lancet-1.0.1-0-g773e48f.tar.gz