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

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From	Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: Call for tests: Making OpenJDK 7 the default in Wheezy LTS
Date	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:40:03 +0200
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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 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.. 

We don't intend to remove OpenJDK 6 but it will receive no further
security updates.


>> 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.

If a Java package needs a security update, we will ensure that it will
be fixed in a timely manner which includes fixing possible build
failures. All Java packages are supported.

Regards,

Markus

Thread

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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