Re: JRE version for jessie: 1.5 ?

2014-09-04 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Quick question: is 1.5 the JRE version targetted for jessie ? 1.7 is > the only version not end-of-life: There is a difference between a JRE version target (1.5, due to GCJ being supported as well (and, apparently, breaking less often)) and a JRE imp

Re: JRE version for jessie: 1.5 ?

2014-09-04 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 04/09/2014 08:54, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit : > Quick question: is 1.5 the JRE version targetted for jessie ? Not really, nobody tries hard to make everything compatible with Java 5 and many packages already use Java 6 and 7 APIs. AFAIK GCJ is just good enough to run Ant and LibreOffice (It wo

Re: JRE version for jessie: 1.5 ?

2014-09-04 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 09:40:43AM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > enough to run Ant and LibreOffice (It would be interesting the run a but only because I disable some parts on gcj-using archs (like the report builder which depends on libraries already using 1.6+ APIs afaicr or javadoc.) Rega