On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:17 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<domi...@greysector.net> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 12 March 2019 at 12:02, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:49 AM Jakub Jelen <jje...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there already a way to package the java application as a module or
> > > we will really remove all these package from Fedora?
> >
> > Most of Java packages listed in this thread are already packaged as
> > modules. Their retirement in rawhide won't directly cause their
> > removal from distribution.
>
> Maybe, but it will cause the removal of other packages that depend on
> their regular (non-modular) builds. You are forcing the hands of their
> maintainers before the infrastructure to make modular packages available
> as build dependencies to regular packages is in place to remake their
> packages into modules, let them be retired or pick up your orphans. If
> it were ready, your moving these packages to modules would be a
> non-event for everyone concerned except you. Instead of helping with
> that (or just waiting), you are about to cause the retirement of quite a
> few packages whose maintainers want nothing to do with Modularity.
> That's not excellent.

I am not forcing anyone to do anything. If I followed your thinking
then I colud say that by not adopting orphaned packages you are
forcing others to do the same things you accuse me of forcing people
to.

>
> Regards,
> Dominik
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