[fedora-java] Removing java provides from java-1.5.0-gcj

Stanislav Ochotnicky sochotnicky at redhat.com
Wed Aug 29 09:20:54 UTC 2012


We've encountered some minor issues with a few package which were kind
of hard to track down. They were partially caused by a bug in yum which
causes both gcj and openjdk being pulled in when only one of them should
be. The other part was small and hard to spot packaging issues which
caused gcj getting accidentaly pulled into BR instead openjdk

Now there are legitimate reasons to require gcj directly, but I'd like
to propose removing "Provides: java = %{javaver}" (and -devel
counterpart). I think leaving rest of the provides should not be an
issue.

This way we'll be able to remove obscure need for "Requires: java >= 1:1.6.0"

I am CCing Deepak as primary maintainer. Does anyone have strong
objections for said removal? 

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Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky at redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno

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