* Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2015-02-24 09:29]: > On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 15:09, Deepak Bhole wrote: > > * 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. > > Well, you do that by adding/updating (Build)Requires: in the packages > which won't work otherwise, not by adding Obsoletes:. > That would generally work for most packages, but there is a new JDK released every 2 years. This means that we would have to change the BR and Requires for the entire Java stack (100s and 100s of packages) every 2 years, which is non-trivial. Deepak > Regards, > -- > 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
