Am 29.02.2016 um 18:04 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Markus Koschany wrote: >> 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. > > I have no objection but I also don't see the point of supporting > something only half of the LTS period.
Fair enough. Then let's focus on the switch to make OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS. >> 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. > > I suggest that we can already fix those, possibly via > wheezy-proposed-updates so that they are fixed before the last > wheezy point release. I will handle the switch to OpenJDK 7 and coordinate this with the Debian Release Team. I have updated https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/TODO accordingly. >> 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. > > OK. Then we should probably have some "Wheezy LTS release notes" where we > can add some recommendations like "Use Tomcat 7 if you want security > support until the end of Wheezy LTS because Tomcat 6 will be EOL on > 2016-12-31." > > We could then also document the situation of OpenJDK 6. > > And we should also fix debian-security-support to be able to document well > in advance that some packages won't be supported past a given date... > right now I don't think that the software takes the EOL date into account. I transformed these suggestions into TODO items on https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/TODO. Everyone feel free to work on this and don't forget to claim the task by adding your names behind it. Regards, Markus
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