Hi,
On Sun, 2019-08-11 at 11:29 +0000, Christian Stadelmann wrote:
Hey together,
I just noticed that the default Java implementation on Fedora 30 is
still Java 8. Is this intended? I.e. both `dnf provides java` and
`dnf provides java-headless` list only java-1.8.0-openjdk (or its
subpackage).
Yes, that's intentional.
How about this plan:
1. For Fedora 31, make also java-11-openjdk `Provides:` the relevant version-independent
package aliases `java` and `java-headless` and so on. If this proposal is too late for
Fedora 31, then make it for Fedora 32.
2. One release later, drop the version-independent aliases from java-1.8.0-openjdk so
that java is being updated to java-11-openjdk for all users.
Note that for such a change we'd have to make sure that *all* Java
packages build/run with java-11-openjdk as this essentially means any
java package currently requiring java or java-devel will switch JDK to
a modularized JDK underneath. Due to that potential breakage we haven't
done the switch. JDK 11 has been GA'ed in September 2018, which was
less than a year ago, fwiw.
If you'd like to help perform a mass-rebuild (into a separate tag?) and
assess what's breaking, feel free to.
Thanks,
Severin