From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: IcedTea 1 / OpenJDK 6 discontinued Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 23:04:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87ziig3yjh.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <20170124191827.GA6311@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34629) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cW9CS-0008PF-FD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:04:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cW9CP-0005aY-Ab for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:04:24 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:56733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cW9CP-0005aI-30 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:04:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20170124191827.GA6311@jasmine> 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: Leo Famulari , guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain 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). --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAliHz2IACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPqcBwf+MNMD9LuNOGa/PIo9ADl31FLMKupBU/T773LZmkaT6kLCvlSfHtOczSYh /PI62kzHA23kYnUFjqAPdt2B+ciIos1AwzdhA+uL8ejJY3QGFyrIb/WIn2xygL9W 0fXBfjFuli2M/7pY/7q75F01qSfIWzwD3pEJ3yvQcMfhCwa4QztNj02yNfrDDgrg DTSq0zOzCZSCJBukYRsKrVjdA4XN35JtdVnvVQiJZqPq18QT8yxTINXm1FCiXubc IMzOsLIjvk7FSQwgYGpaflaGMM2++panOcrXWcFvIsTFFbq0npXxWY4sFJ2AcWr/ juA3Wdg7NqWuiwxxqmrgt4B6LKhnyg== =+b8J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--