IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 23:29:21 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 10:18 +1100, Greg wrote:
> Chris Adams wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> said:
> >   
> >> [1] Normally this is handled by increasing the Epoch (if the packages
> >> have the same name) or adding an Obsoletes: (if they don't). 
> >> In this case, the packages have different names (technically
> >> "java-1.7.0-icedtea" is the name of the package, not "java") and we
> >> don't really want to force the OpenJDK to replace IcedTea in *all* cases
> >> where it's installed on someone's system.
> >>     
> >
> > How will that be handled for F8->F9 upgrades?
> >   
> will this be the default in Fedora 9?

It will be the *only* choice in F9. IcedTea has been *removed*.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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