[fedora-java] Re: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist

[David Walluck]

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Gary Benson wrote:
> Couldn't have said it better myself.  The only reason people are
> starting to get strange mixes of packages is that Fedora has lagged
> JPackage because there's not presently the manpower to keep them
> level.

There's no guarantee of this and, in fact, it is quite likely that
jpackage versions will supercede FC4 versions (except there isn't much
jpackage manpower right now, either). That is, unless you were to bump
the epoch on every FC4 package as was done with eclipse (why the special
case here I am not sure).

On the other hand, people want more compatibility. And I want less
(ideally no) duplication. So I would again ask for some policy that
separates native libs from the jars. Or at least maybe someone is
willing to put some real thought into it rather than dismissing it
outright. By the way, I say this having fallen victim to the exact same
practices myself, where I have made patches and even full version
updates to several packages and just have had no time to push these
changes back to jpackage.org.

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Sincerely,

David Walluck
<david at zarb.org>
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