Aw: Re: Java 9 dropping support for source/target level 1.5
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2014 um 09:50 Uhr
> Von: "Sylvestre Ledru" <sylvestre@debian.org>
> An: "Matthias Klose" <doko@debian.org>, "Emmanuel Bourg" <ebourg@apache.org>, "Debian Java" <debian-java@lists.debian.org>
> Cc: "debian-devel@lists.debian.org" <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>, "Debian Release" <debian-release@lists.debian.org>
> Betreff: Re: Java 9 dropping support for source/target level 1.5
>
> On 15/07/2014 23:55, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Am 15.07.2014 23:08, schrieb Emmanuel Bourg:
> >> This was expected but now it's effective, Java 9 no longer supports
> >> source/target level 1.5:
> >>
> >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2014-July/000972.html
> >>
> >> So if you update a package and see these settings please bump them to 1.6.
> >>
> >> It might be interesting to add a Lintian warning when a jar with the
> >> class format <= 49 is detected, that would mean the package was compiled
> >> with a target <= 1.5 and will probably fail to build with Java 9.
> > No. Don't do it. This is complete bullshit for Debian at this point. We are
> > trying to prepare a release, working on a possible update to Java 8, and we
> > don't have the resources to work on Java 9 at this time.
> >
> > You seem to have your own agenda, but it doesn't seem to match Debian's agenda.
> >
> I think that is unfair statement against Emmanuel (especially when
> adding d-d & d-r to the cc list).
+1, shocking.
Steffen
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