Re: IcedTea 1 / OpenJDK 6 discontinued

[Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>]

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Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Hi Leo,
>
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> 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, 1.14.0.
>>
>> Thankfully, we have zero packages that depend on it, except for
>> icedtea-7, which inherits from it.
>
> Thanks for the heads-up.
>
>> 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...
>
> 5) 2+3: Carry icedtea@6 until we have a reason to remove it (e.g.
> security problems), but make sure it can go on short notice (no
> inheritance).

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.

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