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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Sander Lepik at 30/03/12 18:34 did gyre and gimble:
><i> 30.03.2012 17:04, Thierry Vignaud kirjutas:
</I>>><i> On 30 March 2012 16:00, nicolas vigier<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>> wrote:
</I>>>>><i> Assuming we do not want to abandon them, what do we do? I'd suggest
</I>>>>><i> shipping a new empty package that replaces it with a README.urpmi
</I>>>>><i> telling them to go to Sun directly is the most responsible thing for us
</I>>>>><i> to do. If they do not have a JRE installed, and they have packages that
</I>>>>><i> require one, then they should be prompted to install e.g. openjdk to
</I>>>>><i> satisfy package deps. That should work OK right?
</I>>>><i> I think an empty package is not a good idea, it would be better to
</I>>>><i> obsolete it in task-obsolete :
</I>>>><i> - it's more clear that the package is obsoleted and is not a regular
</I>>>><i> update. Users installing an empty package as update would only see
</I>>>><i> that
</I>>>><i> it is removed but not updated when it's already removed.
</I>>>><i> - package is really removed and no longer listed as installed in rpm
</I>>>><i> database
</I>>>><i> - it's easy to add task-obsolete in urpmi skip.list for people who
</I>>>><i> don't want unmaintained packages to be automatically removed
</I>>>><i>
</I>>><i> In that case, I don't think so.
</I>>><i> We can thus popup a README.urpmi explaining what happened.
</I>>><i> Also user can find out this when running rpm -ql java-sun-foobar
</I>><i> We can obsolete it in mga2 and create an empty package for mga 1,
</I>><i> explaining what's happening. So in mga2 we get rid of it and in mga1
</I>><i> people are warned that it's now removed because of its security issues.
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That won't work unless people have a fully up-to-date mga1 before they
upgrade to mga2. Maybe this is "not supported", but I'm pretty confident
it will actually happen!
Col
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