Re: Package fixes/rebuilds for Java 7

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* Deepak Bhole <dbhole@xxxxxxxxxx> [2012-01-11 16:08]:
> * Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> [2012-01-11 15:59]:
> > On 2012-01-11 01:01, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> > 
> > > I have spent the last few days (on and off) trying to gather a list of
> > > packages that need to be updated for Java 7 in rawhide. I have
> > > identified 31 packages that fail to build (almost all trivial/easy to
> > > fix), and some more that hard code a Java 6 requirement.
> > 
> > Does this mean that there will be no Java 1.6.x implementation in F-17?
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> Java 6 SE will be EOL'd in July 2012:
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
> 
> I assume that OpenJDK6 will stop getting updated around the same time.
> 
> For transition, I had planned for java-1.6.0-openjdk to be in F17 and
> have it provide "java6, java6-devel, etc." so as to ensure that it
> doesn't get into the buildroot unless explicitly specified.
> 
> However with a July '12 EOL date, it sounds like it'd make more sense to
> remove it from F17 completely. 
> 

I have removed all references to 6 being available from the Java7
feature page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Java7

Cheers,
Deepak

> >  What about a Java 1.5.x implementation?
> 
> GCJ (java-1.5.0-gcj) will be available in F17.
> 
> Cheers,
> Deepak
> 
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