[fedora-java] Headless JRE in Fedora

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> Quoting Jiri Vanek (2013-10-21 18:45:46)
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > With
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.3.0.fc20
> > beeing stable,
> > would like to make this more visible:
> > 
> > The jdk in Fedora, being inspired in Debian, now supports headless version.
> > During the life of F20
> > (as in f21 all expected packages should be correctly headless)i would like
> > to recommend all java
> > packages maintainers, who do not need audio, or X or whatever (this is
> > still "on QA" on our side)
> > to swap theirs dependence to java-headless.
> > Alos, maintainers, please do not forget, that when you update your package,
> > also packages you are
> > depending on must become "just hedless dependent". Anyway - all libraries
> > should be jut java-headless :)
> > 
> > I would like to suggest especially wildFly and tomcat to try to migrate
> > asap, as this change was
> > designed for them :)
> 
> They can't. Several reasons:
> 
>     * Packaging guidelines clearly state BR/R: java
>     * Maven packages have automatically generated requires on java (or
>       java-devel)
> 
> To *really* make use of java-headless few things need to happen:
>     * guidelines have to be updated
>     * java-packages have to be changed to R: java-headless by default
>     * Maven packages are rebuilt
>     * packages not built with maven are migrated manually
>     * leaf applications make sure they have R: java

For me, this sounds really as something System Wide Change should be created.
It's interesting Change from marketing POV, but requires quite a lot of
coordination across the distribution/project.

Jiri, please, take a look on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy
and cooperate with Java SIG on it.

Thanks
Jaroslav

> > Btw - the update above is now somehow stuck - it not in testing, nor in
> > updates. Maybe the relengs
> > can help.
> 
> If you need to get in touch with rel-engs file a ticket[1], don't CC their ML
> or
> it's going to get lost
> 
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/
> 
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