Re: Java debugging

[Andrew Haley <aph redhat com>]

Jerry James wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Andrew Haley <aph redhat com> wrote:
>>  I asked the  java-1.5.0-gcj-devel maintainer, and got the reply:
>>
>>  "We generally don't do updates in Fedora except for security fixes.
>>  We fix bugs in Rawhide and if users of the latest stable Fedora badly
>>  want the bug fix they can install the Rawhide packages."
>>
>>  It's pretty hard in this case, as that'll pull in java-1.5.0-gcj*
>>  as well.  Sorry.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong in reaching these conclusions:
> 1. No F8 Java debuginfo package includes sources.
> 2. This will not be fixed.

That seems likely, unless the packages are rebuilt for some reason other
than missing debuginfo.  We're certainly looking at backporting the
fix to java-1.5.0-gcj-devel itself, though.

Andrew.