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Re: Default JRE and Java plugin

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On 07.10.2015 11:34, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm still rounding the corners for the switch to OpenJDK 8 and there is
> a remaining issue regarding the Java plugin. The src:icedtea-web package
> provides the icedtea-plugin package which pulls icedtea-7-plugin.
> Matthias would like to split src:icedtea-web and have one version per
> JRE supported. That would give a src:icedtea-8-web package building
> icedtea-8-plugin.

we have some duplicated code, but we don't want to release with two java 
versions anyway.

> The question is what do we do with the versionless icedtea-plugin
> package? It cannot remain in src:icedtea-web since the package will
> eventually go away. Since the package basically selects the default
> plugin its role could be taken over by src:java-common (the source of
> the default-jre/jdk packages).
>
> I see different solutions:
>
> 1. Move icedtea-plugin as is to src:java-common and make it select the
> default plugin (icedtea-7-plugin now, icedtea-8-plugin after the switch).
>
> 2. Move icedtea-plugin to src:java-common and rename it to
> default-java-plugin or default-jre-plugin (so if we switch to another
> implementation some day we don't have to rename the package).
>
> 3. Don't move icedtea-plugin but make default-jre recommends the default
> plugin.
>
> 4. Solution 1 + make default-jre recommends icedtea-plugin
>
> 5. Solution 2 + make default-jre recommends default-java-plugin
>
> I tend to favor the solution 3. With default-jre recommending the plugin
> we mimic the behaviour of the Oracle JRE since it includes the plugin by
> default, but the weak dependency makes it possible to uninstall the
> plugin afterward.
>
> What do you think?

Not moving/or renaming the iceded-plugin to java-defaults would need rebuilds of 
the icedtea-web package on the version change. Not a big deal, but that's why I 
don't like 3. Whether recommends or suggests I don't care, but these should 
match with the ones in the versioned packages.

Matthias

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Default JRE and Java plugin Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2015-10-07 11:40 +0200
  Re: Default JRE and Java plugin Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2015-10-07 11:50 +0200
    Re: Default JRE and Java plugin Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2015-10-07 12:30 +0200
      Re: Default JRE and Java plugin Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2015-10-07 12:40 +0200
        Re: Default JRE and Java plugin Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2015-10-07 13:20 +0200
          Re: Default JRE and Java plugin Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2015-10-07 13:20 +0200
  Re: Default JRE and Java plugin Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2015-10-08 15:00 +0200

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