Fedora and JPackage proprietary JDK shims

[Ville Skyttä]

On Saturday 03 May 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> Yes the java-sun-compat package is the missing piece.

On the subject of java-sun-compat in JPackage, it has been the last package 
I've maintained there for the last several months.  But it has also been 
quite a while since I've actually used it myself and as always, I don't plan 
to maintain stuff I don't use in the long term, and I've actually announced 
my retirement from JPackage a few minutes ago.

I gather there are quite a few users of the java-*-sun-compat packages, 
they're a pretty trivial bunch to maintain, and there hasn't been much 
interest among active JPackage contributors towards them in the past (no idea 
if that has changed since).  So I'd encourage people who like to see them 
available and up to date and who have time to help out with them to get in 
touch with the JPackage folks.

> Whether it's
> actually included in fedora or not isn't particularly important, but its
> location should be documented and there have been long intervals of time
> when no jpackage.org support existed for current fedora revisions.

java-*-sun-compat should be unaffected by that as they live in the "generic" 
JPackage repositories.