Also, will this change be ackported into the Java packages of RHEL_5 and RHEL-6? Our products use only one spec file, we'll have to add lots of %if <osversion> in our spec files (and we have 300+ of them). ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stanislav Ochotnicky" <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Jiri Vanek" <jvanek@xxxxxxxxxx>, devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:08:01 AM > Subject: Re: Headless JRE in Fedora > > Quoting Jiri Vanek (2013-10-21 18:45:46) > > Hi all! > > > > With > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.3.0.fc20 > > 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/ > > -- > Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> > Software Engineer - Developer Experience > > PGP: 7B087241 > Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
