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Re: Summary of the LTS BoF held during DebConf



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.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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