[fedora-java] compatible provides?

[Andrew Overholt]

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:02 -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:05 -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> >> Would it be possible to add compatible provides to the openjdk -devel
> >> package?
> >> [...]
> >> Unfortunately, there are no provides that are the same across OpenJDK
> >> and Sun's Java:
> > 
> > You mean the Sun-distributed RPM, right?  I've heard many complaints
> > over the years about issues with it but it doesn't seem that it's going
> > to change any time soon.  If I had to guess, I'd say the OpenJDK
> > packages provide the same things as the JPackage Sun, etc. nosrc RPMs.  
> > 
> > Tom can clarify since he maintains the OpenJDK packages.
> 
> Right, but since you do have control over the OpenJDK rpms, adding a 
> "Provides: jdk = 1.6.0" would help.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply this wasn't possible.  I'd still like to
hear from Tom about this, though.

Andrew