Re: openjdk-7 security updates after JDK 7 End of Public Updates
* Francis Devereux:
> Thanks Moritz, that's good news. I can't find any details of
> icedtea's security support lifecycle on their website so I might
> email their mailing list. What I'm trying to do is get an
> understanding of how long the Debian openjdk-7 packages are likely
> to be supported for so that we have plenty of advance warning before
> we need to upgrade - my company maintains lots of servers running
> our Java applications and it'll take us a while to upgrade/migrate
> all of them.
It might make sense for you to get involved with packaging and testing
security updates. One issue we had in the past with OpenJDK updates
was that it was quite difficult to get pre-release feedback from
users, to make sure that there weren't any regressions.
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