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).