On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Markus Koschany wrote: > Matthias Klose, the OpenJDK maintainer, stated that he intends to > support OpenJDK 6 until Ubuntu 12.04 reaches EOL in April 2017 [1] and I > think it should be feasible to mirror this approach for Wheezy LTS > provided everyone agrees to keep OpenJDK 6 supported until then.
I have no objection but I also don't see the point of supporting something only half of the LTS period. > We discussed the switch to OpenJDK 7 last month [2] and I think the > problematic packages are only those that strictly depend on > openjdk-6-jre like tunnelx and rcran-r-java. Everything else that > declares an alternative dependency on java6-runtime or default-jre > should be fine because OpenJDK 7 provides these dependencies. I suggest that we can already fix those, possibly via wheezy-proposed-updates so that they are fixed before the last wheezy point release. > In addition I would also suggest to add Tomcat 6 to the list of > unsupported packages when it is declared EOL on December 31, 2016 [3] > and recommend the switch to Tomcat 7. OK. Then we should probably have some "Wheezy LTS release notes" where we can add some recommendations like "Use Tomcat 7 if you want security support until the end of Wheezy LTS because Tomcat 6 will be EOL on 2016-12-31." We could then also document the situation of OpenJDK 6. And we should also fix debian-security-support to be able to document well in advance that some packages won't be supported past a given date... right now I don't think that the software takes the EOL date into account. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
