[Bug 433070] Review Request: java-1.6.0-openjdk - The OpenJDK 1.6.0 runtime environment

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Summary: Review Request: java-1.6.0-openjdk - The OpenJDK 1.6.0 runtime environment


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433070





------- Additional Comments From fitzsim at redhat.com  2008-03-09 12:54 EST -------
(In reply to comment #17)
> Hmmm, in some ways this is a downgrade, I'd have expected Fedora to stay with 
> the 1.7 version...
> 
> > Changing package name to java-1.6.0-openjdk
> 
> Uh, why? This is still coming from the IcedTea tree, not vanilla OpenJDK. IMHO, 
> it should be named java-1.6.0-icedtea6, as "icedtea6" is the name your upstream 
> tarballs go under.

See Comment #10 for some explanation.  Further to those reasons, with Sun
releasing replacements for the rest of the encumbrances, OpenJDK now comprises
~99% of the code in this package.

IcedTea does still provide two significant pieces: a plugin and NetX support.

Basically though, this name change is "forward looking".  IcedTea's mandate was
never to continue indefinitely as its own project.  The intention for it was
always to merge as much as possible with upstream OpenJDK.  IcedTea served a
useful purpose in making OpenJDK useful immediately in Fedora 8 but its
relevance is declining, and will hopefully decline further in the future as we
merge our patches upstream.

> 
> > It's pretty impressive that there are only 2 patches to get this building in
> > fedora. ;)
> 
> Only because all the other patches are in the IcedTea tree

Right.  We designed IcedTea's repository to follow the RPM "pristine sources"
philosophy; the patches IcedTea applies could easily be hosted in Fedora CVS. 
As the cross-distro IcedTea patches are accepted upstream I expect to see a
shift to each distribution maintaining distro-specific patch sets within their
respective package source repositories.  For now though there's still value in
collaborating with other distros on common problems, in the IcedTea repository.

> (which is why I 
> consider the name to be misleading).

I wouldn't say the name is misleading -- Source1 is the OpenJDK tarball and
contributes ~99% of the package's code.

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