[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

Fri Mar 30 19:34:43 CEST 2012

30.03.2012 17:04, Thierry Vignaud kirjutas:
+> On 30 March 2012 16:00, nicolas vigier<boklm at mars-attacks.org>  wrote:
+>>> Assuming we do not want to abandon them, what do we do? I'd suggest
+>>> shipping a new empty package that replaces it with a README.urpmi
+>>> telling them to go to Sun directly is the most responsible thing for us
+>>> to do. If they do not have a JRE installed, and they have packages that
+>>> require one, then they should be prompted to install e.g. openjdk to
+>>> satisfy package deps. That should work OK right?
+>> I think an empty package is not a good idea, it would be better to
+>> obsolete it in task-obsolete :
+>>   - it's more clear that the package is obsoleted and is not a regular
+>>    update. Users installing an empty package as update would only see that
+>>    it is removed but not updated when it's already removed.
+>>   - package is really removed and no longer listed as installed in rpm
+>>    database
+>>   - it's easy to add task-obsolete in urpmi skip.list for people who
+>>    don't want unmaintained packages to be automatically removed
+>>
+> 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
+We can obsolete it in mga2 and create an empty package for mga 1, explaining what's 
+happening. So in mga2 we get rid of it and in mga1 people are warned that it's now removed 
+because of its security issues.
+
+--
+Sander
+
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