On 26 March 2014 07:41, Mikolaj Izdebski <mizde...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/25/2014 06:45 PM, Omair Majid wrote: > > * Mikolaj Izdebski <mizde...@redhat.com> [2014-03-24 11:41]: > >> On 03/22/2014 06:15 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > >>> Given the known large number of failures (OptionalJavadocs says "80% > build > >>> failure rate" without saying that all are JavaDoc-related), we really > >>> should do a mass rebuild to identify which packages fail to build > *and* to > >>> file bugs soonish, instead of waiting for a Fedora-wide mass rebuild > and > >>> then scrambling to fix dozens/hundreds of build failures in to avoid > >>> slipping the schedule. We don't necessarily need an official one, > perhaps > >>> only in a never-to-be-merged side tag (or even scratch builds?) > >> > >> Agreed. > > > > Should I update the proposal to clarify that a mass rebuild is required, > > then? > > I don't think that a mass rebuild is *required* for this feature. > Packages built with Java 7 should still work with Java 8. > Well having to deal with quite a few embedded hardware devices with java console apps which work in JDK 7 for FC19 but not JDK7 for FC20... one should never ever assume that some other programmer hasn't found a way to break Java's compatibility. I would say that there needs to be something a bit larger than a rebuild but a mass test so that you end up with finding out that someone's hack to make java-7 do something neat isn't java-8 runtime saying 'crash'. -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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