Re: openjdk-8 package available for review
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:55 AM, tony mancill wrote:
> My initial thought was that jessie would use OpenJDK 7. However, given
> that the jessie freeze is in early November of 2014 [0], and that Oracle
> has (tentatively?) announced EOL for Java7 in April of 2015 [1], OpenJDK
> 8 seems like it might be a better choice for the default-jdk over the
> stable lifetime of jessie. Of course, OpenJDK 7 isn't bound to Oracle's
> schedule (just as support for OpenJDK 6 hasn't been), and it's difficult
> to know what mainstream adoption of Java 8 will be like.
Probably best to just proceed in a normal way; add OpenJDK 8 to
Debian, start a transition and if it completes in time then make
OpenJDK 8 the default with OpenJDK 7 still an option.
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bye,
pabs
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