Java and Rawhide?

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Sep 29 10:01:11 UTC 2004


Gary Benson wrote:
> Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dax Kelson wrote:
>>
>>>I see that lots of Java related packages got removed from rawhide.
>>
>>Apparently, they don't work at this point and the maintainer wanted
>>them pulled until after FC3 when he has a chance to do things right.
>>
>>Questions, comments, offers of help to gbenson at redhat.com :-)
> 
> 
> Yeah, the packages that were in FC3 were mostly remnants of the
> RHUGish stuff that was in FC2.  For FC3 I was replacing them with the
> JPackage.org stack (with native code libraries for gij) but it's
> taking forever to get it right.  The old packages didn't work any
> more, and they get in the way if you're trying to install JPackage so
> I got them removed for now.
> 

Should be no problem to push your fixed java packages to Extras, which 
can happen anytime even after the release of FC3.

Warren




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