On Fri, 2019-03-15 at 19:36 -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:48:49 +0100, you wrote: > > > * Richard W.M. Jones [15/03/2019 20:23] : > > > Is Java being dropped from the distro? > > > > Yes, that's what we were warned about months ago. > > Don't think so. > > Nothing has been said about dropping Java, and if anything the > OpenJDK > packagers have been more active with having multiple versions of Java > now being necessary. > > However a bunch of Java packages are being retired, and those > packages > are required for a bunch of other packages. No. The java is not dropped from distro, but moved from normal release cycle to the modular release for better packaging experience and so on. Yes, the side effect of the moving is that the rawhide branch is orphaned and will be retired unless somebody else will maintain it. And yes, this will bring with it many other packages that depend on that, because there is no way to build them against the java packages in the modules (I did not even managed to find a way how to build my package as a module against this java-packages module so I gave up again after few more tries last week). For the record, there is a fesco ticket discussing the delay of the retiring, hopefully before we will have a way to build these packages again: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2104 Regards, -- Jakub Jelen Software Engineer Security Technologies Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
