On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 13:34, Severin Gehwolf wrote: > On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 12:43 +0100, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > [...] > > > ==== option one - introducing new packages - preferred ==== > > > 1. main jdk is proclaimed as dead as it was until now. The new jdk is derived > > > as new package prviousName-legacy > > > > Fedora already supports multiple JDKs installable in parallel. This was > > inherited from JPackage project. This breaks long-established rule of > > naming JDK packages as "java-x.y.z-vendor" used across different > > distributions (JPackage, Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, ...) > [...] > > The idea behind this "-legacy" suffix was to ensure a reasonable upgrade > path for people *only* using default java-x.y.z-openjdk package. > > Consider the following scenario (all hypothetical, not saying that any > Fedora releases and JDK releases align in this way): > > F22 has default JDK of java-1.8.0-openjdk. Then, F23 will get > java-1.9.0-openjdk as default and F24 java-1.10.0-openjdk as default. > The upgrade from F22 => F23 will install java-1.9.0-openjdk and remove > java-1.8.0-openjdk. Similarly, the upgrade from F23 to F24 will install > java-1.10.0-openjdk and remove java-1.9.0-openjdk. This is to ensure > that no old JDKs stick around on the majority of Fedora systems. > > If the name was kept there does not seem to be a good way to: > 1.) Ensure dist upgrades update JDK packages > 2.) Ensure dist upgrades remove old JDK package (which may no longer > get security updates). > > Do you see a way to achieve this without a name change of the package? Wait. Don't you realize that java-1.8.0-openjdk and java-1.9.0-openjdk are different packages? If there are any packages requiring java-1.8.0-openjdk they can keep using it as long as it has a maintainer. java-1.9.0-openjdk will be a completely new package. I agree with Mikołaj that there's no need for what you're proposing. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
