Bug 814585 - icedtea-web rpm does not provide javaws
Summary: icedtea-web rpm does not provide javaws
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: icedtea-web
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Deepak Bhole
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-20 07:21 UTC by Marko Myllynen
Modified: 2012-05-03 14:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of: 682674
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-05-03 14:20:38 UTC
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Description Marko Myllynen 2012-04-20 07:21:58 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #682674 +++

Description of problem:
icedtea-web package should provide "javaws" since it provides Java Web Start implementation - now some packages requiring javaws pull in the Sun package needlessly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
icedtea-web-1.2-2.fc17.x86_64
Comment 1 Deepak Bhole 2012-04-20 15:41:07 UTC 
Fedora does not have the Sun/Oracle or IBM JDK. IMO a virtual provides for javaws is not needed there.
Comment 2 Marko Myllynen 2012-04-23 08:11:43 UTC 
> Fedora does not have the Sun/Oracle or IBM JDK.

Correct, the paste was relevant only for RHEL.

> IMO a virtual provides for javaws is not needed there.

The case I had in mind were possible 3rd party RPMs created for RHEL which now fail to install on Fedora. However, those RPMs could/should Require java-plugin instead of javaws.

I'm ok either way, please feel free to close this one if you think javaws is not needed on Fedora.

Thanks.
Comment 3 Deepak Bhole 2012-05-03 14:20:38 UTC 
Hi Marko. I have made the change and pushed it into git for f17/rawhide. Though I am not rebuilding now, the next build will automatically have this fix. 

Thanks for reporting it!
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