From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: IcedTea 1 / OpenJDK 6 discontinued Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:18:27 -0500 Message-ID: <20170124191827.GA6311@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35979) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cW6bx-0002ll-IG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:18:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cW6bu-0001ej-6w for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:18:33 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:47327) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cW6bu-0001ea-2r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:18:30 -0500 Received: from localhost (c-73-188-17-148.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [73.188.17.148]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EC97A7E2E6 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:18:27 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. 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... --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAliHqIMACgkQJkb6MLrK fwgUKw/6AjeUtxnMlk+3RgP9owqZsWdEPuGL7wkiSJLH32V+HgcPlGrxqizKcmeq Aq8etu0Y6ny+aXaJZOIlIRman/9CXn4eydqXNaEjLKh+CsbLeTeh189M8jdEg7+V PrTCY3PSwGKWXfrlL0/Bvzh1COInEvm3Otf8X9wkHmcRMsLhGw4yn1NxGmCUEOa0 GJhs0XbJwF9kOf4N0Ao8hnWLam9chp3SF91ibDCm39KSirwTgl4WkyFPLaRDLftM CscWRuTXOaYiPGOdeqm9hj2qJSJRtCWeg15fQyLTT6g4TbCyXyR11/3wKi9u842p ArZ5Td0s9ZyfLccZiFV0Hv4dngHReAodDLzef2fA6y+l7njbrYOgQDlurK4zIyab X+XVkkapqBs828aTDi9M7jSCZibl/cw0IwECLSeIpmjwzsbah+oVBcVeTQ88PTbK JNsq2snHpFnDK6q9mB5KCWa1t4DGbUn9ZWy+Sjk9ksINl83q/9NdawkoPIYnbkak R2GoCoVvIpd0sGVCq/aj0zI35DfJfwOKlYi8OhewOvqoGa74/CNmN8j6nBKwvm/f vyQ6TisnjPM3zfG5Y9drdoZS2dYG15jmG+VKdR4kNOISj/Ws0VFOmBgRPsje/1xR CF/Q7ql+ITJ6b8UBP6iTQMD9ewd3f7Ez9kGMg9hRUTaPFliwjWI= =Fajx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--