Hi all, Wheezy-LTS is going to start next month and there is the intention to switch the default-jre|jdk from OpenJDK 6 to OpenJDK 7 because the latter can be supported until Wheezy reaches EOL in 2018-05-31. I've pushed a new branch wheezy-lts to java-common with the necessary changes in debian/rules. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/java-common.git/tree/debian/rules?h=wheezy-lts Can someone confirm that this is really sufficient to switch the default to OpenJDK 7? Is there a way to change the preferred Java environment to OpenJDK 7 with update-alternatives, assumed OpenJDK 6 was installed before? Is this a good idea or should we just warn users about the fact that they use an unsupported Java version on their system and recommend to do the switch manually? Otherwise I have identified four packages that strictly depend on openjdk-6-jdk and fourteen packages that depend on openjdk-6-jre without a good alternative. My intention is to switch the dependencies to something like default-jre | java6-runtime or default-jdk | java6-sdk. The change is trivial, I was just wondering why so many packages were in this state back then. Any suggestions what should be avoided or done when switching the default to OpenJDK 7 in Wheezy? Thanks, Markus
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