F21 System Wide Change: Java 8

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

Please keep java 1.7.0 around for some time. It would make moving easier if we have to jump back for a build or two.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Omair Majid" <omajid at redhat.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 9:07:39 PM
> Subject: Re: F21 System Wide Change: Java 8
> 
> * Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com> [2014-03-24 11:55]:
> > That's exactly the problem.  We need to use a modified version of
> > java-1.8.0-openjdk with extra provides and adjusted priorities for
> > alternatives.
> 
> I have started a new java-1.8.0-openjdk build that should fix this:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=506921
> 
> >               Blocking java-1.7.0-oepnjdk may also be required.  This
> > makes it impossible to scratch-build Java packages using f21-build
> > target in current state.
> 
> Is there anything I can/should do here? Shall I file a rel-eng ticket to
> block java-1.7.0-openjdk? Would it be worth waiting a little while to
> ensure that there are no show-stopper bugs in java-1.8.0-openjdk?
> 
> Thanks,
> Omair
> 
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