Re: IcedTea 1 / OpenJDK 6 discontinued

2017-01-25 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Leo Famulari writes: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:07:28PM -0500, Kei Kebreau wrote: >> I agree with Marius's option 5. I don't see an immediate reason to >> remove it, and we can build icedtea-7 using gcj. > > I actually hadn't noticed that icedtea-7 builds with icedtea-6. I

Re: IcedTea 1 / OpenJDK 6 discontinued

2017-01-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:07:28PM -0500, Kei Kebreau wrote: > I agree with Marius's option 5. I don't see an immediate reason to > remove it, and we can build icedtea-7 using gcj. I actually hadn't noticed that icedtea-7 builds with icedtea-6. I thought it simply inherited from the package

Re: IcedTea 1 / OpenJDK 6 discontinued

2017-01-24 Thread Marius Bakke
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari 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,

IcedTea 1 / OpenJDK 6 discontinued

2017-01-24 Thread Leo Famulari
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,