Am 28.01.2016 um 20:05 schrieb Moritz Mühlenhoff: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 08:02:47PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: >> In my opinion OpenJDK 7 should be an adequate replacement for OpenJDK 6 >> and I can't think of any serious regressions since all Java packages >> have proven to work with both JDKs. Why not strongly recommend to LTS >> users to switch to OpenJDK 7 but give them some time to do so and then >> phase out OpenJDK 6 support at the end of 2016? > > Some packages in wheezy have dependencies on the respective opendjk-6 > packages, but that can probably be tweaked with openjdk-7 providing > the old package namespace. In general Java applications have alternative dependencies like default-jre | java7-runtime | java6-runtime. As soon as OpenJDK 7 is the default JDK all packages should be fine that alternatively depend on one of those three or directly on openjdk-7-jre although that is not recommended in general. OpenJDK 7 provides java7-runtime and java6-runtime. Packages that only depend on openjdk-6-jre are problematic. Using apt-cache rdepends openjdk-6-jre on Wheezy yields two packages that strictly depend on openjdk-6-jre: tunnelx and rcran-r-java. I think we should try to contact the maintainers in both cases and evaluate if this is really necessary. Then we could either fix this with a simple dependency switch or in the worst case declare them unsupported. Please share, if there is a better way to find those kind of packages. Cheers, Markus
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