Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

[Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>]

>> I won't upload this myself. IcedTea 7-2.3 uses two hotspot versions, one for the
>> zero ports, one for the hotspot runtimes. From my point of view it would be good
>> to update to a 7-2.[45] with a unified hotspot version capable to build both
>> zero and hotspot, and keep the current 7-2.1.x for now.
>
> It looks like icedtea is currently at 1.3.1 and you want to bump it to
> a 2.x version?  I don't think the release team will like that very
> much.  Do you have any ideas on a solution that gets to openjdk 7u15
> while sticking with icedtea 1.3.1?

Nevermind, so you're refering to icedtea, which is part of the openjdk
source, not icedtea-web.  Since that is part of the source package,
you're certainly free to choose whichever version you think best.
Would you mind doing that and uploading your choice to unstable?

Thanks,
Mike