[Mageia-dev] Adding Java-Policy

Mon Jan 10 10:36:40 CET 2011

On 10.01.2011 10:11, Daniel Kreuter wrote:
+> 
+> 
+> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi
+> <mailto: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,
+
+GCJ is not unmaintained, it is part of GCC.
+See http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/gcc/java/ChangeLog?view=markup
+
+Dropping it would be more work than not dropping it, so I don't see the
+point.
+
+> there
+> are a few programs depending on it (like a few packages of ant i think)
+
+Ant doesn't depend on it. There are several packages that depend on it,
+though, yes.
+
+> 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.
+
+Yes.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+