On 02/24/2015 03:11 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 15:09, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik(a)greysector.net> [2015-02-24
09:04]:
>> 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.
>>
>
> We have no intention of blocking it. The reason for proposing these
> restrictions is that the Fedora Java stack will not work with older
> JDKs, therefore we need to make sure that it goes not get installed on
> the system unless explicitly requested by someone who knows what they
> are doing.
Well, you do that by adding/updating (Build)Requires: in the packages
which won't work otherwise, not by adding Obsoletes:.
No. They are (B)R java. We are obsoleting older version of java and doing mass rebuild.
Thats the
only way how to ensure whole stack is build by same jdk - main jdk - and we need to
ensure 99% of
people will be using the correct jdk with correct application
I probably miss your point, you seems to be unaware about haw java udates and stack is
working
best regards from cz,
J.