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+SOURCES/stax-ex-1.7.7.tar.gz
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+d963b8e794a70b739fef95b5030701970269ec21 SOURCES/stax-ex-1.7.7.tar.gz
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+Name:          stax-ex
+Version:       1.7.7
+Release:       8%{?dist}
+Summary:       StAX API extensions
+License:       CDDL or GPLv2
+Url:           https://stax-ex.dev.java.net
+# svn export https://svn.java.net/svn/stax-ex~svn/tags/stax-ex-1.7.7/ stax-ex-1.7.7
+# find stax-ex-1.7.7/ -name '*.jar' -delete
+# tar czf stax-ex-1.7.7.tar.gz stax-ex-1.7.7
+Source0:       %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+
+BuildRequires: dos2unix
+BuildRequires: maven-local
+BuildRequires: mvn(javax.xml.stream:stax-api)
+BuildRequires: mvn(junit:junit)
+BuildRequires: mvn(net.java:jvnet-parent:pom:)
+BuildRequires: mvn(org.apache.felix:maven-bundle-plugin)
+BuildRequires: mvn(org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin)
+
+BuildArch:     noarch
+
+%description
+This project develops a few extensions to complement JSR-173 StAX API in the
+following area.
+
+* Enable parser instance reuse (which is important in the
+  high-performance environment like JAXB and JAX-WS)
+* Improve the support for reading from non-text XML infoset,
+  such as FastInfoset.
+* Improve the namespace support.
+
+%package javadoc
+Summary:       Javadoc for %{name}
+
+%description javadoc
+This package contains javadoc for %{name}.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%pom_remove_dep javax.activation:activation
+%pom_remove_plugin org.codehaus.mojo:buildnumber-maven-plugin
+%pom_remove_plugin org.codehaus.mojo:findbugs-maven-plugin
+%pom_remove_plugin org.glassfish.copyright:glassfish-copyright-maven-plugin
+%pom_remove_plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin
+
+# Convert the license to UTF-8:
+mv LICENSE.txt LICENSE.txt.tmp
+iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 LICENSE.txt.tmp > LICENSE.txt
+dos2unix LICENSE.txt
+
+%mvn_file :stax-ex %{name}
+
+%build
+
+%mvn_build -- -Dproject.build.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
+
+%install
+%mvn_install
+
+%files -f .mfiles
+%license LICENSE.txt
+
+%files javadoc -f .mfiles-javadoc
+%license LICENSE.txt
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Feb 09 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.7-8
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Jul 27 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.7-7
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Feb 11 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.7-6
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jun 22 2016 gil cattaneo <puntogil@libero.it> 1.7.7-5
+- regenerate build-requires
+
+* Fri Feb 05 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.7-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Jun 19 2015 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.7-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Feb 12 2015 gil cattaneo <puntogil@libero.it> 1.7.7-2
+- introduce license macro
+
+* Wed Jan 21 2015 gil cattaneo <puntogil@libero.it> 1.7.7-1
+- update to 1.7.7
+
+* Sun Jun 08 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.1-8
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Mar 28 2014 Michael Simacek <msimacek@redhat.com> - 1.7.1-7
+- Use Requires: java-headless rebuild (#1067528)
+
+* Mon Aug 05 2013 gil cattaneo <puntogil@libero.it> 1.7.1-6
+- rebuilt FTBFS in rawhide
+- swith to Xmvn
+- adapt to new guideline
+
+* Sun Aug 04 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.1-5
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Feb 15 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.1-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Feb 06 2013 Java SIG <java-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.1-3
+- Update for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Maven_Rebuild
+- Replace maven BuildRequires with maven-local
+
+* Tue Oct 30 2012 Marek Goldmann <mgoldman@redhat.com> - 1.7.1-2
+- Added maven-enforcer-plugin BR
+
+* Tue Aug 28 2012 gil cattaneo <puntogil@libero.it> 1.7.1-1
+- Updated to upstream version 1.7.1
+
+* Sat Jul 21 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.7-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Mar 9 2012 Juan Hernandez <juan.hernandez@redhat.com> 1.7-1
+- Updated to upstream version 1.7
+
+* Fri Mar 9 2012 Juan Hernandez <juan.hernandez@redhat.com> 1.4-2
+- Cleanup of the spec file
+
+* Sat Jan 21 2012 Marek Goldmann <mgoldman@redhat.com> 1.4-1
+- Initial packaging