[release-notes: 1/5] Improving the Optional Javadocs change in Development-Java

pbokoc pbokoc at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 16 12:55:59 UTC 2014


commit 80fe16cf51738af7e094bd7c3ca5b051b8027165
Author: Petr Bokoc <pbokoc at redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 14 14:00:30 2014 +0200

    Improving the Optional Javadocs change in Development-Java

 en-US/Development_Java.xml |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/Development_Java.xml b/en-US/Development_Java.xml
index 40b4ba9..78ca02d 100644
--- a/en-US/Development_Java.xml
+++ b/en-US/Development_Java.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
       The way that Java dependencies are handled has changed in Fedora 21. Packages that do not interact with the X server or audio subsystem now depend on a new OpenJDK headless subpackage. This means installation size reduction on servers, a change that aims for efficiency.
     </para>
     <para>
-      Documentation for Java packages is now optional, saving even more space on your server.  Look for the <literal>-doc</literal> subpackage for Java packages to install the accompanying documentation.
+      Documentation for Java packages is now optional, saving even more space on your server. Look for the <literal>-doc</literal> subpackage for Java packages to install the accompanying documentation. If you need access to API documentation of Java libraries without javadoc subpackage try using upstream web pages which should be accessible at homepage URL of the project in question. You can query for the URL of installed package with <command>rpm -qi <replaceable>package</replaceable> | grep '^URL'</command>
     </para>
     <para>
       Java packaging guidelines now require to convert most Java packages to have <literal>Requires: java-headless</literal> when appropriate.  Detailed information about the packaging effort can be found at <ulink url="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java#BuildRequires_and_Requires" />


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