Hi all,
the new ant 1.8.2 has been submitted into Factory last week. No big
chnages are expected, just the ant-nodeps and ant-trax packages were
moved back to the main ant package. This creates a lot of confusions,
because those tasks were considered as base one.
This is a great message for those of us needed it for some reason - for
instance Android development. For older releases of openSUSE no backport
is planned, but the Java:packages [1][2] project might be used for you as
well. I just enabled the build for openSUSE 11.2 11.4, so the new ant
will be available also for older openSUSE releases.
[1]
https://build.opensuse.org/project/repositories?project=Java%3Apackages
[2] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Java:/packages/
Best regards
Michal Vyskocil
Hi all,
I'm considering drop of update-alternatives [1] support from our Java
packages - mainly java-1_6_0-openjdk and java-1_6_0-sun (the gcj will
follow, but no one is really interesting on it).
I assume there is no real use case to have more than one implementation
installed these days and in fact this system produces confusions for users
wanting replace openjdk's plugin implementation by Sun's one (that's the
ony one reason for switch I'd to say).
The proposed change is to
* drop u-a --install calls from %post/%preun scripts
* install all files are now handled by alternatives system to /usr/bin
* add Conflicts: otherproviders(jre) and so to all subpackages
I'm also sure this change should be backported to released openSUSE
versions, but don't want to decide on my own. We can be more
conservative here, even if I don't think we need to be.
So my questions are
* Do you want drop u-a support from Java packages (sun, openjdk) from
Factory?
* Do you want backport such change to released openSUSE (anyone from
maintenance(a)o.o here?)
[1] http://linux.die.net/man/8/update-alternatives
Best regards
Michal Vyskocil
