* Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2015-02-24 09:04]: > On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 14:28, Jiri Vanek wrote: > [...] > > There were several attempts in past like "can you please support jdk > > 7,6...in newer fedoras" and we always told no. When come speech about "do it > > on your own" suddenly many questions marks raised up. > > > > The last open bug is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190137 > > the guy is willing to maintain it. > > Fine, so let him do it and drop the Obsoletes: tag in java-1.8.0-openjdk > and its successors. You shouldn't arbitrarily block people from > re-introducing an older branch of any package back into Fedora in the > first place. > We have no intention of blocking it. The reason for proposing these restrictions is that the Fedora Java stack will not work with older JDKs, therefore we need to make sure that it goes not get installed on the system unless explicitly requested by someone who knows what they are doing. Deepak > 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
