From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: IcedTea 1 / OpenJDK 6 discontinued
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 10:04:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw8n5x4v.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170125033628.GA7256@jasmine>
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> 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
> thought it simply inherited from the package definition.
It does not. Icedtea-7 builds with GCJ.
I see no problems with removing “icedtea-6” (after removing the
inheritance issues). I would not like to wait for security advisories
to be published, because security vulnerabilities in Java are really
just a matter of time. They may not even be reported in time because
hardly anyone uses that version any more.
--
Ricardo
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-24 19:18 IcedTea 1 / OpenJDK 6 discontinued Leo Famulari
2017-01-24 22:04 ` Marius Bakke
2017-01-25 3:07 ` Kei Kebreau
2017-01-25 3:36 ` Leo Famulari
2017-01-25 9:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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