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

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mikolaj Izdebski" <mizdebsk at redhat.com>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 10:16:26 AM
> Subject: Re: F22 System Wide Change: Legacy implementations of the Java	platform in Fedora
> 
> On 02/25/2015 06:58 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> >> On 02/24/2015 06:41 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>> "java" would be the preferred JRE in Fedora. The package would have no
> >>>> content, but it would have Requires on preferred Fedora JRE, currently
> >>>> java-1.8.0-openjdk. This could be easily changed as default JRE changes.
> >>>> The same is for other binary subpackages of "java", respectively.
> >>>>
> >>>> All system packages would require subpackages of "java" as they do now
> >>>> (unless there is good reason not to). Users that install "java" would
> >>>> get latest JRE, which would be updated to new major versions as they
> >>>> become default. Older JDKs would not be removed during update (unless
> >>>> there is no maintainer and they are obsoleted as currently),
> >>>
> >>> AFAIK nothing obsoletes a package just because it is orphaned…
> >>
> >> If no volunteer shows up for maintenance of old JDK then it would be
> >> deprecated and obsoleted, as it's was done with previous JDK packages.
> > 
> > How would that work _exactly_?
> 
> 1) JDK maintainers announce deprecation in advance and call for
> volunteers to maintain old JDK
> 
> 2) when the time of deprecation comes, JDK package is reassigned to new
> maintainer, if such showed up; no obsoletes are added

We speak about people that are already Fedora packagers, right? Just sponsoring someone that showed up and let him/her maintain legacy JDK in Fedora is recipe for disaster.
For not-yet-packagers they would have to go through the full review-sponsoring process.


Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

> 
> 3) if there is no new maintainer then old JDK is redired in pkgdb,
> blocked in koji and obsoleted by some other package
> 
> 4) if maintainer shows up after old JDK was retired then he can just
> revive package (passing review if needed); package release is bumped to
> be higher that obsoletes
> 
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