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[dalibor topic]

Actually, I think that for 7u60 (and 7u80) we need to move in the other 
direction, and not publish separate source bundles from the source code
that's already in the Project's Mercurial repositories.

Beside being potentially error prone, the trouble I see with providing 
source bundles for update releases is that because there are update 
releases we work on as part of OpenJDK (like 7u40), and update releases 
that we can't work on as part of OpenJDK (like 7u55), and accordingly 
publish source bundles for the former but not for the latter, there is a 
regular source of confusion whether a source bundle exists for a 
release, or not, whether the update project tracks the latest 
development, etc. etc. etc.

The added complexity provides little benefit, and the simplest way to 
remove the complexity is to remove the issue causing it, and educate 
users to use the source ... directly from the respective source repository.

cheers,
dalibor topic

On 20.05.2014 20:22, Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Kelly O'Hair <kellyohair at gmail.com> [2014-05-20 13:17]:
>> Oh that's fine, I just wondered why 8 was missing. I never liked or
>> used the bundles anyway. ;)
>
>>> I don't think we have source bundles for 8 or 8u.  Did I miss something?
>
> Speaking as someone who maintains 8u in a Linux distribution, we would
> love to use official source bundles for 8u.
>
> Most packaging systems in Linux start from an upstream tarball (what
> OpenJDK calls source bundled) [1][2][3] to build and package the
> software. If an upstream project, like OpenJDK, does not publish
> official source bundles, then we have to create it manually, which is
> error prone and can be different from what others may see when they
> clone the repositories. It also makes it harder to verify authenticity
> of source bundles in the distribution.
>
> In other words, please do consider publishing source bundles for 8u!
>
> Thanks,
> Omair
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL?rd=Packaging/SourceURL#Referencing_Source
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging#Three_central_concepts
> [3] http://en.opensuse.org/SourceUrls
>

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