On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 00:01 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > Gary Benson wrote: > > Elliot Lee wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dax Kelson wrote: > >> > >>>I see that lots of Java related packages got removed from rawhide. > >> > >>Apparently, they don't work at this point and the maintainer wanted > >>them pulled until after FC3 when he has a chance to do things right. > >> > >>Questions, comments, offers of help to gbenson@xxxxxxxxxx :-) > > > > > > Yeah, the packages that were in FC3 were mostly remnants of the > > RHUGish stuff that was in FC2. For FC3 I was replacing them with the > > JPackage.org stack (with native code libraries for gij) but it's > > taking forever to get it right. The old packages didn't work any > > more, and they get in the way if you're trying to install JPackage so > > I got them removed for now. > > > > Should be no problem to push your fixed java packages to Extras, which > can happen anytime even after the release of FC3. JPackage is already the upstream - so pushing there makes more sense than Extras IMHO. The hope is we can support both free (including native) and proprietary JDKs. Paul
