changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Matthias Klose
It's time to change the Java default to java7, and to drop java support on architectures with non-working java7. Patches for the transition to Java7 should be available in the BTS, mostly submitted by James Page. Some may be still lurking around as diffs in Ubuntu packages, apologies for that.

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthias Klose, le Mon 06 May 2013 16:22:30 +0200, a écrit : - hurd never had openjdk support, and afaik, nobody is working on that. There has been work towards this, notably by Jeremie Koenig. I don't know the status, we just have not made it a strong priority so far. Samuel -- To

Re: changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Klose dixit: Currently java bindings/packages are built for all architectures, however some architectures still use gcj as the (only available) Java implementation, and some OpenJDK zero ports are non-functional at this point, and Debian porters usually don't care about that. So the