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

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From	Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS
Date	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:30:02 +0200
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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 can't be avoided unless we want to redo the whole OpenJDK 7
> transition. [1]
> 
> I think in those cases it is reasonable to recommend to manually change
> build dependencies back to OpenJDK 6 because rebuilding a package does

Only if it stays (unsupported) and it's not actually removed from the archive.. 

> not pose a security risk and should never happen on production systems
> anyway. I will update https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Wheezy and add an
> example today.

You miss the case where you want (as it's LTS) provide security updates. So
it needs to be buildable. Or you declare all Java-using things unsupported
in wheezy-LTS.

Regards,

Rene

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Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2016-04-20 18:30 +0200
  Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> - 2016-04-25 11:50 +0200
    Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2016-04-25 12:20 +0200
      Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> - 2016-04-25 12:30 +0200
        Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> - 2016-04-25 12:40 +0200
        Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2016-04-25 12:40 +0200
          Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@orangeseeds.org> - 2016-05-17 18:20 +0200
            Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2016-05-17 18:40 +0200
              Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@orangeseeds.org> - 2016-05-17 22:40 +0200

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