[fedora-java] Saner Java packaging

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/09/2010 12:53 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 05.03.2010 17:31, Alexander Kurtakov wrote:
>> Time to bring GCJ support discussion back.
>> We should find a way to not install java-1.5.0-gcj on every users computers.
>> There are packages that do not work with it and it's plain wrong to install it
>> as a dependency of this packages which are explicitly requiring java 1.6.0.
>> Possible solutions:
>>   * Solution 1 - someone who cares for the gcj stack finds a way to not require
>> java-1.5.0-gcj when there are gcj bits in the package so we do not force gcj
>> installation on every user.

That shouldn't be too difficult.  I'm looking at jakarta-oro now: I removed
the 

--- jakarta-oro.spec~   2009-07-26 13:52:21.000000000 +0100
+++ jakarta-oro.spec    2010-03-09 13:24:34.445414981 +0000
@@ -59,8 +59,6 @@
 
 %if %{gcj_support}
 BuildRequires:         java-gcj-compat-devel
-Requires(post):                java-gcj-compat
-Requires(postun):      java-gcj-compat
 %endif
 
 %description

and it's fine.  There's no need AFAICS for a Requires: on java-gcj-compat.

Andrew.