On 18/02/13 08:01, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > On 18/02/2013 07:26, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: >> My view as a user: >> [...] >> Oracle has announced that no more new public updates of Java SE 6 will >> be made available after February 2013: >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
> Andrew from RedHat said that OpenJDK will still be maintained after that: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2013/02/msg00005.html So it still has upstream (as in OpenJDK) security support. I think the original rationale behind #675495 may have been a misunderstanding, or this wasn't known at the time. > OpenJDK6 therefore should be considered obsolete when Wheezy is released. I wouldn't use the word 'obsolete' so long as there are packages that *can* use it... I'd call it 'maintenance only'. Before deciding the post-wheezy fate of openjdk-6, why not wait, and see how well things work out over the next few months. Let's see what security issues affect openjdk-6 vs. openjdk-7. Let's see how Red Hat's security maintenance for openjdk-6 compares to Oracle's own Java 7 fixes being pulled into openjdk-7 (in terms of expediency, complexity of changes, regressions). For example, if I had some public-facing Java-based service, I would rather have been running it on openjdk-6 over the past months because it had fewer security issues and perhaps no regressions caused by fixes. OTOH some packages may switch to openjdk-7 post-wheezy or ship a new upstream version that has at least been fixed to be able to use it. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/512219ae.7090...@pyro.eu.org
