> On 13.10.2016, at 15:35, Stephen Connolly <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Technically, at least on RHEL, OpenJDK 7 still has some legs
> 
> https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013
> 
> But then given that RHEL supports OpenJDK 6 until the end of this year and we 
> have dropped support for Java 6 as of 1.610-ish (technically may be 1.612 
> that actually dropped support, and 1.609 was announced to not have support 
> for Java 6, even though it did)... do we really care about that data point?

RHEL 5 will leave regular support in March: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Product_life_cycle

RHEL 6 + 7 support Java 8. I don't see this particular distro as a problem. In 
general, availability of a supported (old) JRE doesn't mean we should't require 
something newer. Absence of a support (new) JRE would be the problem.

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