On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Jakub Jelen wrote: > On Fri, 2019-03-15 at 19:36 -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:48:49 +0100, you wrote: > > > > > * Richard W.M. Jones [15/03/2019 20:23] : > > > > Is Java being dropped from the distro? > > > > > > Yes, that's what we were warned about months ago. > > > > Don't think so. > > > > Nothing has been said about dropping Java, and if anything the > > OpenJDK > > packagers have been more active with having multiple versions of Java > > now being necessary. > > > > However a bunch of Java packages are being retired, and those > > packages > > are required for a bunch of other packages. > > No. The java is not dropped from distro, but moved from normal release > cycle to the modular release for better packaging experience and so on. > Yes, the side effect of the moving is that the rawhide branch is > orphaned and will be retired unless somebody else will maintain it. And > yes, this will bring with it many other packages that depend on that, > because there is no way to build them against the java packages in the > modules (I did not even managed to find a way how to build my package > as a module against this java-packages module so I gave up again after > few more tries last week).
The actual effect of this is that I'm going to disable Java bindings for all the affected packages. Java loses, Fedora loses. Rich. > For the record, there is a fesco ticket discussing the delay of the > retiring, hopefully before we will have a way to build these packages > again: > > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2104 > > Regards, > -- > Jakub Jelen > Software Engineer > Security Technologies > Red Hat, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
