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[Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 01/06/2012 18:53, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Le 01/06/2012 16:35, Moritz Muehlenhoff a écrit :
>> Package: openjdk-6
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> Upstream support for Java 6 ends in November:
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html
>>
>> As such, we should not include it in Wheezy and fix up the 
>> rdepends to use openjdk-7 instead.
> So, you think we should change default-jdk to openjdk-7...
> 
> FYI, there are many packages failing to build with this release.
> With the freeze is in a couple of weeks, it is going to be hard to
> achieve (while I would like to see that coming).

Switching default-java to OpenJDK7 subject was discussed on debian-java
[1] last year, and conclusion was :

- Since Java 6 will be EOL on Nov 2012 [2], switch to openjdk-7 is the
way to go but isn't that simple
- there was 100+ FTBFS by 2011 end (Ubuntu done some test rebuild)
- AFAIK, there is still 50+ FTBFS [3] :/

You can see in UDD that there was some bugs recently fixed regarding
those FTBFS but clearly there is a long way before we can fix everything...

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2011/11/msg00029.html
[2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=java7-ftbfs
[4]
http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=openjdk-7-transition&user=ubuntu-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-- 
Damien