From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kei Kebreau Subject: Re: IcedTea 1 / OpenJDK 6 discontinued Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:07:28 -0500 Message-ID: <87y3xzygzz.fsf@openmailbox.org> References: <20170124191827.GA6311@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWDw5-0001TU-F0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:07:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWDw1-0004ep-ID for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:07:49 -0500 Received: from lb1.openmailbox.org ([5.79.108.160]:37388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWDw1-0004Zr-B5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:07:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20170124191827.GA6311@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:18:27 -0500") 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 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain 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. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEg7ZwOtzKO2lLzi2m5qXuPBlGeg0FAliIFnAACgkQ5qXuPBlG eg3Vew/+MEWxE61ZQJi/rDJbL4EjNbwadqBA2TPeeRVgLMB8yU4JdVJOlJxTp4qE smzdhyYbBrlXm6rTMBCSlwoZEG+CvtOOMROg6EkOKfgQd3NAk1lQXM8Pr3n6N6yz ls7zlOpvZ9r6+zbRmGJnCKHpd1jBOHNZ1AtAFBP2EC/bTGVvLxsW4NRigGmPqTUH Xn2UPmO20oLwzTj0OE3zeaigUZ4WlROvB1Gtl5gKxRj6uhyD2tQY5QgBb4NgIotT ZDkJqxe4ENcSu4Fw8G2xUXbUVP2dacq3oWkGLZuZr89oYYgT0KyMppxj8BqwgAR3 Gyz890gnkg/Z1rfnRdJjmBE/SDzjd7wJfJUXwSWoqkLVnl779cj9wb/v4P+JlVP1 6UOxF2fSR48VpmglnZfmPuy4z+48GM0CDT3IdbAv1qiVQ4oNj5C0SJA/V1hxFzar yMUKNXTw1ONZri/iByx0BpE9D9aG14IPE1T7pLNidQm8aPsy53vNf/AdnOy4eDT0 h0Rk7JtondeWFmSF7g+sgybIDeD3a71eRTD/ecFxtc10SmuUgJwNHFnAQbxArHzb 7toqAS1AvZeOd8bIWoz9fL/BzIL3qRrL0FzXwEzbC4NQjdiNj7ZN0fp6qykL6fc/ ywlBlUGeYCf2+U4DlkBcFNVztn3uFYcAzswD7NEkRwkq2koacwg= =pH1p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--