[fedora-java] Heads-up: Upcoming netty major version update in Rawhide (Will Break Stuff)

[Marek Goldmann]

Stano,

I think this is the route I would like to go. I'm happy to create a 
netty4 compat package based on what Jon creates for netty package in 
Rawhide.

--Marek

On 05.11.2013 15:49, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
> Quoting Marek Goldmann (2013-11-05 12:36:33)
>> OK, I have new info on this.
>>
>> Netty is actually pulled by HornetQ, WildFly JMS implementation. There
>> is an open bug upstream to upgrade to Netty 4:
>>
>>          https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HORNETQ-1215
>>
>> The fix version is the next release (2.4.0.CR1) and this version will be
>> used by next pre-release (and later Final of course) of WildFly. As you
>> can imagine I want to package it for Fedora 20 and Rawhide. I don't want
>> to leave Beta1 in Fedora 20.
>>
>> So, here is the thing:
>>
>> This would require upgrading netty in Fedora 20 too, because if we don't
>> do it - WildFly will not be able to get any new updates to Fedora 20
>> which is a tragedy for me :)
>>
>> Is it doable, any ideas?
>
> There's an idea (even if an ugly one) to package netty4 in F20 only (keeing
> netty package there on 3.x). In F21+ we'd migrate all other packages to netty
> 4.x, update netty package to 4.x and make it obsolete netty4 from F20.
>
> With XMvn there would be no (or minor) changes needed to packages that would
> like to build against 4.x (and those changes would likely work in rawhide as
> well). Most like all you'd have to do is ifdef for (build)requires.
>