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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java</H1>
+ <B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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+ <I>Fri Mar 30 16:04:06 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On 30 March 2012 16:00, nicolas vigier &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>&gt; wrote:
+&gt;&gt;<i> Assuming we do not want to abandon them, what do we do? I'd suggest
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> shipping a new empty package that replaces it with a README.urpmi
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> telling them to go to Sun directly is the most responsible thing for us
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> to do. If they do not have a JRE installed, and they have packages that
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> require one, then they should be prompted to install e.g. openjdk to
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> satisfy package deps. That should work OK right?
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+</I>&gt;<i> I think an empty package is not a good idea, it would be better to
+</I>&gt;<i> obsolete it in task-obsolete :
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160;- it's more clear that the package is obsoleted and is not a regular
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160; update. Users installing an empty package as update would only see that
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160; it is removed but not updated when it's already removed.
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160;- package is really removed and no longer listed as installed in rpm
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160; database
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160;- it's easy to add task-obsolete in urpmi skip.list for people who
+</I>&gt;<i> &#160; don't want unmaintained packages to be automatically removed
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+In that case, I don't think so.
+We can thus popup a README.urpmi explaining what happened.
+Also user can find out this when running rpm -ql java-sun-foobar
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