On 2016-05-17 12:31:27, Markus Koschany wrote: > [dropping Rene from CC because he is subscribed to debian-java] > > Am 17.05.2016 um 17:56 schrieb Antoine Beaupré: >> On 2016-04-25 06:34:53, Markus Koschany wrote: > [...] >>> We don't intend to remove OpenJDK 6 but it will receive no further >>> security updates. >> >> .. starting from june? > > Starting from the start of the LTS cycle. > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/debian-security-support.git/tree/security-support-ended.deb7
Oh. I missed that completely somehow. Darn it, sorry for the noise. >> Because there *are* issues on OpenJDK-6 *now*: should they be triaged >> out of there, or will they actually be fixed in an gigantic upload at >> the end of the day? >> >> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/openjdk-6 >> >> a, which his frontdesk hat. > > No, the whole point of making OpenJDK 7 the default implementation is > that we can drop the support for OpenJDK 6. Even upstream (Red Hat) > recommends to use OpenJDK 7 for long term use now. I have done > everything possible to make users aware of the change. At the moment we > are in a grace period because we don't want to surprise admins who, for > instance, run Tomcat or Jetty. But by now they should know that OpenJDK > 6 is unsupported and that we strongly recommend to switch to OpenJDK 7. > On 26 June we simply complete this process by making OpenJDK 7 the default. Of course, that makes sense. I'll just mark those issues as EOL then. Thanks for the clarification! A. -- One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
