Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-03-30 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 22.03.2013 19:08, schrieb Moritz Mühlenhoff: Matthias Klose d...@ubuntu.com schrieb: I'm not familiar with the Java internals, but if we're following that approach it would make sense to upgrade Wheezy to the version in experimental (i.e. 7u15 instead of 7u3). I won't upload this

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-03-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: Am 01.03.2013 04:35, schrieb Moritz Mühlenhoff: Backporting security fixes with Java has turned out to be more of less unfeasible. I tried this once with DSA 2507 and I think that amounted to at least two man days of work for that update

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-03-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
I won't upload this myself. IcedTea 7-2.3 uses two hotspot versions, one for the zero ports, one for the hotspot runtimes. From my point of view it would be good to update to a 7-2.[45] with a unified hotspot version capable to build both zero and hotspot, and keep the current 7-2.1.x for

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-03-05 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 01.03.2013 04:35, schrieb Moritz Mühlenhoff: Backporting security fixes with Java has turned out to be more of less unfeasible. I tried this once with DSA 2507 and I think that amounted to at least two man days of work for that update alone. Also, Ubuntu has shipped backports to all

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-03-04 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
Moritz Mühlenhoff: I'm not familiar with the Java internals, but if we're following that approach it would make sense to upgrade Wheezy to the version in experimental (i.e. 7u15 instead of 7u3). +1 (I am using the experimental version) Cheers, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-03-03 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Op donderdag 28 februari 2013 21:35:09 schreef Moritz Mühlenhoff: So we should proceed with providing backports for openjdk in the future. If Matthias keeps the Debian/Ubuntu packaging in a state that it's easily buildable on squeeze/wheezy for ojdk6 and for wheezy on ojdk7 I think we should

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-03-03 Thread Julien Cristau
Control: retitle -1 openjdk-6 should not be released with jessie Control: tag -1 + wheezy-ignore On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 14:08:44 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Op donderdag 28 februari 2013 21:35:09 schreef Moritz Mühlenhoff: So we should proceed with providing backports for openjdk in the

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-28 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net schrieb: On 2013-02-17 23:04, Matthias Klose wrote: There is a bug report open for openjdk-6 in wheezy (#675495) and squeeze didn't see any security updates for several months. To summarize, no party involved is capable or willing to provide security

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-18 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 18/02/2013 07:26, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: Thanks a lot for explaining the situation and alternative paths forward. My view as a user: I only want OpenJDK7 (maybe OpenJDK8 when that becomes generally available on September 9, 2013 :-) Oracle has announced that no more new public

openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-17 Thread Matthias Klose
There is a bug report open for openjdk-6 in wheezy (#675495) and squeeze didn't see any security updates for several months. To summarize, no party involved is capable or willing to provide security updates based on backports of single patches to the released openjdk-6 version in a stable

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-17 23:04, Matthias Klose wrote: There is a bug report open for openjdk-6 in wheezy (#675495) and squeeze didn't see any security updates for several months. To summarize, no party involved is capable or willing to provide security updates based on backports of single patches to

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-17 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 18.02.2013 00:08, schrieb Niels Thykier: On 2013-02-17 23:04, Matthias Klose wrote: - Remove openjdk-6 in wheezy. Probably would require falling back to gcj. Not recommended as a runtime environment, but should work fine for building packages, as ecj is used for byte-code

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-17 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Matthias Klose d...@ubuntu.com writes: - Afaik openjdk-7 for kfreebsd does build on kfreebsd (according to Damien) with the kfreebsd kernel from wheezy. So maybe some commitment could be found to upgrade and maintain the kernels before wheezy is released? Actually as far as I

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-17 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
Thanks a lot for explaining the situation and alternative paths forward. My view as a user: I only want OpenJDK7 (maybe OpenJDK8 when that becomes generally available on September 9, 2013 :-) Oracle has announced that no more new public updates of Java SE 6 will be made available after February

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-17 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
Niels Thykier: - Updating to openjdk-7 in wheezy would not solve any issues from my point of view, and it would need some porting of packages to 7, and probably removing some packages which are not yet ported. Otoh removing openjdk-7 for wheezy could be an option if only one

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-18 08:23, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: Niels Thykier: - Updating to openjdk-7 in wheezy would not solve any issues from my point of view, and it would need some porting of packages to 7, and probably removing some packages which are not yet ported. Otoh removing openjdk-7 for