F22 System Wide Change: Legacy implementations of the Java platform in Fedora

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 14:28, Jiri Vanek wrote:
[...]
> There were several attempts in past like "can you please support jdk
> 7,6...in newer fedoras" and we always told no. When come speech about "do it
> on your own" suddenly many questions marks raised up.
> 
> The last open bug is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190137
> the guy is willing to maintain it.

Fine, so let him do it and drop the Obsoletes: tag in java-1.8.0-openjdk
and its successors. You shouldn't arbitrarily block people from
re-introducing an older branch of any package back into Fedora in the
first place.

Regards,
Dominik
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