Re: sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-14 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 14.02.19 um 17:21 schrieb Thomas Finneid: > On 14.02.2019 11:43, Markus Koschany wrote:> [btw are you subscribed to > the list? Then I don't need to CC you] > > Sorry, it seemed I had subscribed to the wrong java list, but should be > fixed now. > >>> No matter how one looks at it, Debian nee

Re: Re: sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-14 Thread Thomas Finneid
On 14.02.2019 11:43, Markus Koschany wrote:> [btw are you subscribed to the list? Then I don't need to CC you] Sorry, it seemed I had subscribed to the wrong java list, but should be fixed now. >> No matter how one looks at it, Debian needs to make a strategy change >> regarding OpenJdk relea

Re: sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-14 Thread Markus Koschany
[btw are you subscribed to the list? Then I don't need to CC you] Am 14.02.19 um 00:09 schrieb Thomas Finneid: [...] > No matter how one looks at it, Debian needs to make a strategy change > regarding OpenJdk releases and versions supported. We did take all that into consideration. :) If you had

Re: sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-13 Thread Thomas Finneid
On 12.02.2019 23:48, Markus Koschany wrote: Personally I would like to keep OpenJDK 8 as well but you also have to keep the following points in mind: All these ar good reasons. The issue here is that Jdk8 -> jdk11 is a special case. Oracle decided to just change the entire release scheme to

Re: sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-12 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 12.02.19 um 23:14 schrieb Thomas Finneid: [...] > Is Scala and Sbt the only software that haven't migrated away from > jdk-8? considering how much time and money the entire world has invested > in jdk-8, I think its a bit early to remove it. > > (At work, 70 developers have spent the last half

Re: sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-12 Thread Thomas Finneid
On 12.02.2019 22:56, Markus Koschany wrote: Hi, Am 12.02.19 um 22:45 schrieb Thomas Finneid: [...] Is there a jdk6 version available in Debian? I think I have read something about removing jdk-8 from debian, is that correct? Also, if I understand the Debian/Java Policy correctly, all jvm-ba

Re: sbt / scala and jdk 6 and 8

2019-02-12 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi, Am 12.02.19 um 22:45 schrieb Thomas Finneid: [...] > Is there a jdk6 version available in Debian? I think I have read > something about removing jdk-8 from debian, is that correct? > > Also, if I understand the Debian/Java Policy correctly, all jvm-based > packages must depend on default-jre/