java again really

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 17:22:21 UTC 2008


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>> I'd really like to know why the jpackage project appears to have given 
>> up on fedora.  If the experts can't do it - or have reasons not to, 
>> there's not much hope for anyone else.
> 
> The current JPackage team includes several Red Hat Java developers and 
> IIRC it was mutually agreed that Java packages would be directly 
> available in the Fedora repository based on JPP conventions.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JavaPackagingStatus
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/JPackagePolicy

That's kind of weird. And doesn't make a lot of sense without the 
java-sun-compat packages going first.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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