Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 10:44:32AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Samstag 01 November 2008 schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Stephan Kulow schrieb:
> > > Dropping packages (from distro and from DVD) is our daily business.
> > > RealPlayer might be different - but I have no idea in what way.
> >
> > RealPlayer is not really different but it shows once again that the
> > process of dropping packages from the distribution is not transparent
> > enough to the community.
> > Usually package drops are not really announced in public and one has to
> > stumble about it and then starts the discussion about the why.
> > I know that the reasons for dropping packages are recorded internally
> > but why isn't that public accessible data?
>
> Moving that package database to the outside is basically the only
> missing piece for the "distribution building in the open" project.
> It's been worked on, but currently there are more important issues ;(
>
> But here is the list of packages that were on the 11.0 DVD and that
> aren't on the 11.1-B4 DVD (or the nonoss addon). Perhaps you find some more 
> interesting, or even bugs. But note that we dropped quite some for space 
> reasons or just due to renames.
>
> Greetings, Stephan
>
> java-1_6_0-sun
> java-1_6_0-sun-alsa
> java-1_6_0-sun-devel
> java-1_6_0-sun-jdbc
> java-1_6_0-sun-plugin

Quite a number of Java programs rely on Java (1.)6 and SUN extensions,
which are not available in openjdk (java-1_6_0-openjdk*) due to 3rd
party software, not relicensed by SUN for obvious reasons. Any chance
to make these Java packages also available for openSUSE 11.1?

Best regards,
Stefan

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