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

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stanislav Ochotnicky" <sochotnicky at redhat.com>
> To: "Fedora Java Development" <java-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:20:54 PM
> Subject: [fedora-java] Removing java provides from java-1.5.0-gcj
> 
> 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.

Well, I still see packages that have Requires: jaxp_parser_impl and etc. so such packages can bring gcj in too. If the Provides:java is removed it makes perfect sense to remove the others too so we can be absolutely sure gcj is not pulled in accidentially.

Regards,
Alex

> 
> 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>
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