On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 12:19 AM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:
>
> Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > I'm quite certain that forbidding people to move to module-only would mean
> > that we would not only not have a Java stack in Fedora but also no Java
> > module too.
>
> I think that banning module-only packages would actually get Java back to
> non-modular-only, since the goal of going module-only is clearly to only do
> one rather than both. I don't see how maintaining the packages as module-
> only is in any way less work than maintaining them as non-modular-only. So
> we need to force the packagers to set the correct priorities for the benefit
> of the project as a whole.

To make things even more interesting, the non-modular Java stack has
almost reached parity with what's available from the shiny module
branches, except a handful of packages that require more work than a
simple "bump version and build" (for example, the rebase from maven
3.5 to 3.6 is still pending, but I'm planning to work on that soon).

Fabio

>         Kevin Kofler
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