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Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze



On 18/02/2013 07:26, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> Thanks a lot for explaining the situation and alternative paths forward.
> 
> My view as a user:
> 
> I only want OpenJDK7 (maybe OpenJDK8 when that becomes generally
> available on September 9, 2013 :-)
> 
> Oracle has announced that no more new public updates of Java SE 6 will
> be made available after February 2013:
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
> 
> OpenJDK6 therefore should be considered obsolete when Wheezy is released.
> 
> Is there any collaboration with other distributions and/or the OpenJDK
> project on this ?

Andrew from RedHat said that OpenJDK will still be maintained after that:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2013/02/msg00005.html

Sylvestre


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