On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 14:28, Jiri Vanek wrote:
[...]
There were several attempts in past like "can you please support
jdk
7,6...in newer fedoras" and we always told no. When come speech about "do it
on your own" suddenly many questions marks raised up.
The last open bug is:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190137
the guy is willing to maintain it.
Fine, so let him do it and drop the Obsoletes: tag in java-1.8.0-openjdk
and its successors. You shouldn't arbitrarily block people from
re-introducing an older branch of any package back into Fedora in the
first place.
Regards,
Dominik
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