Am 28.07.2015 um 09:49 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg: > Hi all, > > We are reaching the end of the OpenJDK 8 transition, we are down to one > package failing to build with the new version, and not the least since > it's Eclipse. There is also a handful of patches available for other > packages waiting for their maintainers or a NMU [1]. > > I think we should now consider switching the default JDK. There is still > some time to migrate Eclipse before the next release. > > I suggest that we do the switch the first week of September. OpenJDK 7 > will remain available, but ultimately we aim for its removal in Stretch > to lower the maintenance burden. > > What do you think?
I think switching to OpenJDK 8 is sensible now. I will try to update Eclipse to the latest upstream version but this requires time and won't happen soon. So for the time being I suggest to let Eclipse depend on OpenJDK 7. Regards, Markus
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