Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-05-17 Thread Antoine Beaupré
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 >>> s

Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-05-17 Thread Markus Koschany
[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 fr

Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-05-17 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2016-04-25 06:34:53, Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 25.04.2016 um 12:23 schrieb Rene Engelhard: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:17:52PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: >>> we are mainly concerned about runtime issues with OpenJDK 7. Libreoffice >>> declares dependencies on default-jre | open

Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-04-25 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 01:07:54PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > I have discussed this on debian-java already but in short I had to > ponder about several things and one thing was how to spend our resources > responsibly. Of course I can fix all build failures in Wheezy LTS but > fixing 140 bugs

Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-04-25 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 25.04.2016 um 12:23 schrieb Holger Levsen: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:17:52PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: >> I think in those cases it is reasonable to recommend to manually change >> build dependencies back to OpenJDK 6 because rebuilding a package does >> not pose a security risk and shoul

Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-04-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:34:53PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 25.04.2016 um 12:23 schrieb Rene Engelhard: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:17:52PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > >> we are mainly concerned about runtime issues with OpenJDK 7. Libreoffice > >> declares dependencies on def

Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-04-25 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 25.04.2016 um 12:23 schrieb Rene Engelhard: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:17:52PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: >> we are mainly concerned about runtime issues with OpenJDK 7. Libreoffice >> declares dependencies on default-jre | openjdk-7-jre, so I believe it >> should be fine. I am awa

Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-04-25 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:17:52PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > I think in those cases it is reasonable to recommend to manually change > build dependencies back to OpenJDK 6 because rebuilding a package does > not pose a security risk and should never happen on production systems > anyway. I d

Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-04-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:17:52PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > we are mainly concerned about runtime issues with OpenJDK 7. Libreoffice > declares dependencies on default-jre | openjdk-7-jre, so I believe it > should be fine. I am aware of build failures with OpenJDK 7 and I think > that c

Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-04-25 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 25.04.2016 um 11:41 schrieb Rene Engelhard: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 06:22:51PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: >> I would like to ask everyone who uses Java in server or desktop >> environments to test their applications with OpenJDK 7 and to prepare >> for the switch. This can be achie

Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-04-25 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 06:22:51PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > I would like to ask everyone who uses Java in server or desktop > environments to test their applications with OpenJDK 7 and to prepare > for the switch. This can be achieved by installing either openjdk-7-jre > or openjdk-7-jr

Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS

2016-04-20 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi all, as you may already be aware, the intention is to make OpenJDK 7 the default Java implementation in Wheezy LTS to ensure full security support until 31 May 2018. The switch will happen on 26 June 2016. I would like to ask everyone who uses Java in server or desktop environments to test the