Changes/Drop i686 JDKs

Drop i686 builds of jdk8,11,17 and latest (18) rpms from f37 onwards

Summary

java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk and java-latest-openjdk packages will no longer build i686 subpackages

Owner

• Name: Jiri Vanek
• Email: <jvanek@redhat.com>
• Product: java and java stack
• Responsible WG: java-sig (java and java-maint)(which no longer exists)

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 37
• Last updated: 2022-04-06
• devel thread
• FESCo issue: #2772
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by Wrangler>
• Release notes <will be assigned by Wrangler>

Expected schedule

• during march, drop i686 builds from all jdks in fedora rawhide

Detailed Description

Fedora currently ships:

• java-1.8.0-openjdk (LTS)
• java-11-openjdk (LTS)
• java-17-openjdk (LTS)
• java-latest-openjdk (STS, jdk18).

All those builds on all architectures except jdk8, where arm32 with jit is built by different package. Unluckily, the i686 bit builds of jdk are rotten in upstream. The recent breakage of i686 JIT just before branching nearly killed jdk17 as system jdk feature. The rotting have main visibility with newer GCCs. If GCC bump, and it does, it always triggers new issues in i686 JIT, and there is less and less people to somehow workaround them. Unluckily, there is probably no longer anyone willing to really fix them

Although there is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EncourageI686LeafRemoval , this proposal have nothign to do with it, not even inspiration. People about OpenJDK learned about after this jdk one was announced.

Benefit to Fedora

The i686 builds are rotten in usptream, and to patch them localy had become pain. We may be introducing very bugy i686 jdk. Better then to do so, we would rather not ship that at all. This will untie hands of both JDK and GCC developers, who will no longer need to dive into nasty legacy code.

Scope

Change owners

• we will simiply stop building i686 pkg in rawhide

Other developers

• may notice the multilib i686 java missing.
• it is up to them to drop i686 builds or to povide workaround (if possible)

Other

• Release engineering: #10686
  • mass rebuild will NOT be required for this change

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

• The upgrade on multilib systems will lead to autoremoval of i686 javastack
• which should be minimum - 99% of javastack is noarch

How To Test

install i686 java will result to not packages found

User Experience

User experience on multilib systems will be bad. Bad reasonable.

Dependencies

There are is unknown number of multilib java consumers. I expect some of them may rise voice, but that will have to handled one by one.

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: return i686 packages
• Contingency date: (not provided)

Documentation

Will be neded...

Release Notes

None yet...

list of non-noarch java packages, transitive to chain of three

about 250 packages builds java with native libraries. Some of them (eg libreoffice) can definitley continue to build on i686, only will lack java support

bolzplatz2006
cephfs-java
cryptlib-java
csound-java
cvc4-java
DecodeIR
DecodeIR-devel
eclipse-swt
freewrl-java
gdal-java
jansi
jansi-native
java-1.8.0-openjdk-openjfx-devel
java-1.8.0-openjdk-openjfx-devel-fastdebug
java-1.8.0-openjdk-openjfx-devel-slowdebug
java-gnome
java-libsbml
java-z3
jblas
jffi
jffi-native
jigawatts
jna
jni-inchi
jpcap
jpcap-javadoc
jssc
libbluray-bdj
libcephfs_jni1
libcephfs_jni-devel
libphidget-java
libreoffice
libreoffice-base
libreoffice-calc
libreoffice-core
libreoffice-draw
libreoffice-emailmerge
libreoffice-filters
libreoffice-gallery-vrt-network-equipment
libreoffice-gdb-debug-support
libreoffice-glade
libreoffice-grammalecte
libreoffice-graphicfilter
libreoffice-gtk3
libreoffice-help-ar
libreoffice-help-bg
libreoffice-help-bn
libreoffice-help-ca
libreoffice-help-cs
libreoffice-help-da
libreoffice-help-de
libreoffice-help-dz
libreoffice-help-el
libreoffice-help-en
libreoffice-help-eo
libreoffice-help-es
libreoffice-help-et
libreoffice-help-eu
libreoffice-help-fi
libreoffice-help-fr
libreoffice-help-gl
libreoffice-help-gu
libreoffice-help-he
libreoffice-help-hi
libreoffice-help-hr
libreoffice-help-hu
libreoffice-help-id
libreoffice-help-it
libreoffice-help-ja
libreoffice-help-ko
libreoffice-help-lt
libreoffice-help-lv
libreoffice-help-nb
libreoffice-help-nl
libreoffice-help-nn
libreoffice-help-pl
libreoffice-help-pt-BR
libreoffice-help-pt-PT
libreoffice-help-ro
libreoffice-help-ru
libreoffice-help-si
libreoffice-help-sk
libreoffice-help-sl
libreoffice-help-sv
libreoffice-help-ta
libreoffice-help-tr
libreoffice-help-uk
libreoffice-help-zh-Hans
libreoffice-help-zh-Hant
libreoffice-impress
libreoffice-kf5
libreoffice-langpack-af
libreoffice-langpack-ar
libreoffice-langpack-as
libreoffice-langpack-bg
libreoffice-langpack-bn
libreoffice-langpack-br
libreoffice-langpack-ca
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libreoffice-langpack-cy
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libreoffice-langpack-de
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libreoffice-langpack-el
libreoffice-langpack-en
libreoffice-langpack-eo
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libreoffice-langpack-et
libreoffice-langpack-eu
libreoffice-langpack-fa
libreoffice-langpack-fi
libreoffice-langpack-fr
libreoffice-langpack-fy
libreoffice-langpack-ga
libreoffice-langpack-gl
libreoffice-langpack-gu
libreoffice-langpack-he
libreoffice-langpack-hi
libreoffice-langpack-hr
libreoffice-langpack-hu
libreoffice-langpack-id
libreoffice-langpack-it
libreoffice-langpack-ja
libreoffice-langpack-kk
libreoffice-langpack-kn
libreoffice-langpack-ko
libreoffice-langpack-lt
libreoffice-langpack-lv
libreoffice-langpack-mai
libreoffice-langpack-ml
libreoffice-langpack-mr
libreoffice-langpack-nb
libreoffice-langpack-nl
libreoffice-langpack-nn
libreoffice-langpack-nr
libreoffice-langpack-nso
libreoffice-langpack-or
libreoffice-langpack-pa
libreoffice-langpack-pl
libreoffice-langpack-pt-BR
libreoffice-langpack-pt-PT
libreoffice-langpack-ro
libreoffice-langpack-ru
libreoffice-langpack-si
libreoffice-langpack-sk
libreoffice-langpack-sl
libreoffice-langpack-sr
libreoffice-langpack-ss
libreoffice-langpack-st
libreoffice-langpack-sv
libreoffice-langpack-ta
libreoffice-langpack-te
libreoffice-langpack-th
libreoffice-langpack-tn
libreoffice-langpack-tr
libreoffice-langpack-ts
libreoffice-langpack-uk
libreoffice-langpack-ve
libreoffice-langpack-xh
libreoffice-langpack-zh-Hans
libreoffice-langpack-zh-Hant
libreoffice-langpack-zu
libreoffice-librelogo
libreoffice-math
libreoffice-Mendeley
libreoffice-nlpsolver
libreoffice-officebean
libreoffice-ogltrans
libreoffice-pdfimport
libreoffice-postgresql
libreoffice-pyuno
libreoffice-sdk
libreoffice-TexMaths
libreoffice-ure
libreoffice-voikko
libreoffice-wiki-publisher
libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer2latex
libreoffice-writer2xhtml
libreoffice-x11
libreoffice-xsltfilter
libwebp-java
link-grammar-java
link-grammar-java-devel
mapserver-java
mecab-java
mariadb-java-client
mmc
nailgun
octave
octave-communications
octave-control
octave-devel
octave-dicom
octave-flexiblas
octave-general
octave-gsl
octave-image
octave-interval
octave-io
octave-iso2mesh
octave-libsvm
octave-mathgl
octave-mcxlab
octave-miscellaneous
octave-mmclab
octave-mpsolve
octave-netcdf
octave-NLopt
octave-odepkg
octave-optim
octave-parallel
octave-quaternion
octave-signal
octave-statistics
octave-struct
octave-zmat
opencv-java
openjfx8-devel
openjfx-devel
openmpi-java
openmpi-java-devel
openni-java
openoffice.org-diafilter
pfstools-octave
pl-jpl
plplot-java
plplot-java-devel
plplot-octave
portmidi-tools
ppl-java
ppl-java-javadoc
ProjectX
python3-pyjnius
qdbm-java
R
R-devel
R-java
R-java-devel
sdljava
Singular-surfex
sphinx-java
systemtap-runtime-java
systemtap-testsuite
toped
toped-devel
tuxguitar
unifi
unifi-lts
vdr-burn
vfrnav
vfrnav-utils
vfrnav-validatorservice
vfrnav-webservice
will-crash