Am 29.02.2016 um 15:17 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: >> Another package which needs to be sorted out is the support for >> Java. wheezy has both openjdk-6 and openjdk-7 (jessie has only >> -7 and stretch will also only have one version). > > I asked our current sponsors about OpenJDK 6 and none asked > us to keep supporting it. They are satisfied with having only > OpenJDK 7 supported in wheezy. > >> sense to only support openjdk-7 in Debian LTS. Some rdeps in >> wheezy will not allow that, but I think most people use openjdk >> to run external java apps and not the Java apps packaged in >> Debian (with maybe Tomcat as the exception). > > Yes, we need to investigate that. I just stumbled on a few packages > with "openjdk-6-jre | java6-runtime" in their dependencies (like > "entagged" or "389-console"). > > A complete list should be made to see the impact and decide what should > happen to those packages... Matthias Klose, the OpenJDK maintainer, stated that he intends to support OpenJDK 6 until Ubuntu 12.04 reaches EOL in April 2017 [1] and I think it should be feasible to mirror this approach for Wheezy LTS provided everyone agrees to keep OpenJDK 6 supported until then. We discussed the switch to OpenJDK 7 last month [2] and I think the problematic packages are only those that strictly depend on openjdk-6-jre like tunnelx and rcran-r-java. Everything else that declares an alternative dependency on java6-runtime or default-jre should be fine because OpenJDK 7 provides these dependencies. In addition I would also suggest to add Tomcat 6 to the list of unsupported packages when it is declared EOL on December 31, 2016 [3] and recommend the switch to Tomcat 7. Regards, Markus [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2016/01/msg00069.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2016/01/msg00112.html [3] https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-60-eol.html
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