Re: F21 System Wide Change: Headless Java

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Quoting Ville Skyttä (2013-11-15 14:11:37)
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky
> <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Quoting Jaroslav Reznik (2013-11-15 12:28:11)
> >> * (optional) Mass-change spec files that have "Requires: java" to "Requires:
> >> java-headless"
> >>
> >> Other developers:
> >> * Modify spec files to have "Requires: java-headless" instead of "Requires:
> >> java"
> >> * (note) JavaSIG has several proven packages that could assist with this
> >> change
> >>
> >> Release engineering:
> >> * mass rebuild is not necessary but it would simplify things
> >
> > I would like to point out that all of the above could be simply automated.
> 
> If you do that, please make sure to not touch packages that have
> already been converted -- properly finding out what's already done
> will probably require using repoquery, for example due to possible
> conditionals in specfiles that make them backwards compatible, e.g.
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/jing-trang.git/commit/?id=6d46e64fe0f365a947c7095adaf65e8cc2c90d5b

Ugh. Why did you have to do that? That commit changed nothing because all the
dependencies still have "Requires: java". Technically speaking you also made a
change which is against packaging guidelines[1], but that's not really an issue
in this case

Unnecessary complications...

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java#BuildRequires_and_Requires

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