Marius Bakke writes: > 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, 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.