[Mageia-dev] Adding Java-Policy

Mon Jan 10 09:11:34 CET 2011

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi> wrote:
+
+> On 08.01.2011 11:39, Farfouille wrote:
+>
+> My suggestion would be to look at how Mandriva packages are done, as we
+> will probably initially follow their java policy.
+> (note that the mandriva java packages do not have the gcj AOT binaries,
+> and they are compiled with openjdk on archs were openjdk is available)
+>
+> I'm not saying that a completely new java packaging policy is not needed
+> (it is), though, so if the java developers have the resources to convert
+> all imported java packages to a completely new policy, I'm all for it :)
+>
+> There are around 400 java packages in Mandriva, though I hope we don't
+> need to import all of them (i.e. hopefully many are unused/old).
+>
+> --
+> Anssi Hannula
+>
+
+That could be a very hard task, because you have to look if there aren't any
+dependencies on some of these packages. I would suggest to drop the whole
+gcj packages, but even it's unmaintained now by upstream, there are a few
+programs depending on it (like a few packages of ant i think)
+But writing a policy about the openjdk would be the right thing now because
+we will integrate it, it's also in mandriva but without a policy or Remy
+didn't find one for that.
+
+-- 
+Mit freundlichen Grüßen
+
+Greetings
+
+Daniel Kreuter
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