Re: Impact of the new Java release policy on Debian

To: Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>
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Subject: Re: Impact of the new Java release policy on Debian
From: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:10:30 +0100
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Le 30/11/2017 à 14:31, Thorsten Glaser a écrit :

> Eek, that would break most of Debian’s stability promises.
> People would lynch you.

I know :) That's why I mentioned "near perfect backward compatibility"
as a prerequisite.

Emmanuel Bourg

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