F21 System Wide Change: Java 8

[Christopher]

I also would like to see 1.7.0 stick around for awhile. Not
necessarily as the default, but at least available in the repos. As it
stands, it's difficult to use a modern Fedora on projects that are
still developing against JDK 1.6.

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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov
<akurtako at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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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