Hi Leo, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes:
> Time marches on and IcedTea 1, which provides OpenJDK 6, is approaching > the end of its life: > > http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2017/01/11/discontinuation-of-support-for-icedtea-1-x/ > > There will be one more release in the series, 1.14.0. > > Thankfully, we have zero packages that depend on it, except for > icedtea-7, which inherits from it. Thanks for the heads-up. > What does everyone think we should do? I see 4 options: > > 1) Distributions like ours will have to support it ourselves. That means > fixing bugs, including security issues. This would probably be a > cross-distro effort. > > 2) We will continue to package it, but not try to support it. The > package will be stuck in time, and we should mark it as deprecated > somehow, at least with a comment in the package description. > > 3) We Will remove the package and adjust our icedtea-7 package to no > longer inherit from icedtea-6. > > 4) Something else... 5) 2+3: Carry icedtea@6 until we have a reason to remove it (e.g. security problems), but make sure it can go on short notice (no inheritance).
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