[arch-general] [Q] Package all sources in openjdk8-src as Fedora does

[Guillaume ALAUX]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Konstantin Gribov <grossws at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As I saw in fedora openjdk rpm, they bundle non-public java sources (like
> packages in sun, jdk etc). It's quite useful for debugging when low-level
> jdk parts involved, so I propose this patch (based on java8-openjdk
> 8.u51-1).
>
> File all-sources.patch contains patch for
> ${srcdir}/jdk-${_repo_ver}/make/CreateJars.gmk to include all sources
> instead of whitelisted ones.
> PKGBUILD.patch adds all-sources.patch to sources, its checksum and apply it
> in prepare phase.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Gribov

You did not link the patch but I guess the one you are talking of is [0].

Could you argue why this should belong to Arch rather than upstream
(OpenJDK or IcedTea)?

[0] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/java-1.8.0-openjdk.git/tree/include-all-srcs.patch