Changes/Drop i686 JDKs

Drop 32b builds of jdk8,11,17 and latest (18) rpms

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)
• rcm ticket: todo

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 37
• Last updated: 2022-03-07
• FESCo issue: todo
• Tracker bug: todo
• Release notes todo

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 32 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 GCC. If gcc bump, and it does, it always tirggers new issues in i686 jit, and there is less and less people to fix somehow workaround them. Unluckily, there is probably no longer anyone willing to really fix them

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: todo
  • mass rebuild will 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.

Dependencies

There are unknown multilib java consumers. This will need to evolve dynamically

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: return i686 packages

Documentation

Will be neded...

Release Notes

None yet...