Hi! Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org> writes: > Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> writes: >> On 28/08/14 16:44, Gilles Filippini wrote: >>> Putting debian@bsd in the loop as adviced by KiBi, because >>> (gcj-4.9-jdk == default-jdk) on kfreebsd-*. >> >> Thanks, nice to know about this. FWIW I'd prefer openjdk-7 as >> kfreebsd's default JDK. >> >> We may see kfreebsd-specific issues in openjdk-7 or gcj-4.9-jdk from >> time to time, but increasingly, if other architectures have switched >> over to openjdk-7, we'll see more issues like this which are >> "FTBFS/broken on kfreebsd" but actually due to gcj and not the >> architecture itself. > > Do you remember why the switch wasn't done? I remember Damien being > somewhat motivated to keep things running for kfreebsd. Maybe I should > just try and catch Matthias here at DebConf and see what he thinks? Just talked to Matthias a few minutes ago and he's concerned about no constant quick patchflow if something needs updating during stable lifetime. I guess we need a wikipage or something to keep this kind of information avalabl -- it'll have slipped out of my mind in a few moths again for sure Christoph
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