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From: "Stanislav Ochotnicky"
<sochotnicky(a)redhat.com>
To: "Fedora Java Development" <java-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:20:54 PM
Subject: [fedora-java] Removing java provides from java-1.5.0-gcj
We've encountered some minor issues with a few package which were
kind
of hard to track down. They were partially caused by a bug in yum
which
causes both gcj and openjdk being pulled in when only one of them
should
be. The other part was small and hard to spot packaging issues which
caused gcj getting accidentaly pulled into BR instead openjdk
Now there are legitimate reasons to require gcj directly, but I'd
like
to propose removing "Provides: java = %{javaver}" (and -devel
counterpart). I think leaving rest of the provides should not be an
issue.
Well, I still see packages that have Requires: jaxp_parser_impl and etc. so such packages
can bring gcj in too. If the Provides:java is removed it makes perfect sense to remove the
others too so we can be absolutely sure gcj is not pulled in accidentially.
Regards,
Alex
This way we'll be able to remove obscure need for "Requires: java >=
1:1.6.0"
I am CCing Deepak as primary maintainer. Does anyone have strong
objections for said removal?
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Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky(a)redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno
PGP: 7B087241
Red Hat Inc.
http://cz.redhat.com
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