Quoting Jiri Vanek (2013-10-21 18:45:46)
Hi all!
With
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.3...
beeing stable,
would like to make this more visible:
The jdk in Fedora, being inspired in Debian, now supports headless version. During the
life of F20
(as in f21 all expected packages should be correctly headless)i would like to recommend
all java
packages maintainers, who do not need audio, or X or whatever (this is still "on
QA" on our side)
to swap theirs dependence to java-headless.
Alos, maintainers, please do not forget, that when you update your package, also packages
you are
depending on must become "just hedless dependent". Anyway - all libraries
should be jut java-headless :)
I would like to suggest especially wildFly and tomcat to try to migrate asap, as this
change was
designed for them :)
They can't. Several reasons:
* Packaging guidelines clearly state BR/R: java
* Maven packages have automatically generated requires on java (or
java-devel)
To *really* make use of java-headless few things need to happen:
* guidelines have to be updated
* java-packages have to be changed to R: java-headless by default
* Maven packages are rebuilt
* packages not built with maven are migrated manually
* leaf applications make sure they have R: java
Btw - the update above is now somehow stuck - it not in testing, nor
in updates. Maybe the relengs
can help.
If you need to get in touch with rel-engs file a ticket[1], don't CC their ML or
it's going to get lost
[1]
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/
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