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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 at 15:09, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at greysector.net> [2015-02-24 09:04]:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> We have no intention of blocking it. The reason for proposing these
> restrictions is that the Fedora Java stack will not work with older
> JDKs, therefore we need to make sure that it goes not get installed on
> the system unless explicitly requested by someone who knows what they
> are doing.

Well, you do that by adding/updating (Build)Requires: in the packages
which won't work otherwise, not by adding Obsoletes:.

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