[fedora-java] Re: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist

[Gary Benson]

Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Ian Pilcher wrote:
> > I believe that there needs to be a clear strategy for the
> > co-existence of Fedora gcj packages and JPackage "pure Java"
> > packages.  The current situation is a mess:
> 
> All we need to do to make this work properly is make sure that the
> FC4 packages always have versions >= the corresponding JPackage
> versions.  Then packages that are in JPackage but not in Fedora will
> be provided by JPackage and all other packages will come from
> Fedora.
> 
> Our repackaging of JPackages is meant to be 100% compatible with the
> source JPackages.  If a given package is not compatible then that's
> a bug in that package.  Otherwise Fedora users should always want
> the Fedora versions of the packages.
> 
> In other words, if our Fedora package versions always match or
> exceed their JPackage equivalents then there is no problem with
> JPackage and Fedora packages co-existing without a clear boundary
> between the two repositories.  I just don't see this as a problem
> at all.

Couldn't have said it better myself.  The only reason people are
starting to get strange mixes of packages is that Fedora has lagged
JPackage because there's not presently the manpower to keep them
level.

Cheers,
Gary