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[Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Le samedi 17 août 2013 16:21:06 Christoph Egger a écrit :
> I've been talking with Julien from the release team and Damien, the
> openjdk maintainer here at DebConf.
> 
> Switching could -- as far as I understand -- work as follows:
> 
>  * Make openjdk-7 default. No other actions needed and should work for a
>    start

FTR, I've prepared an update of default-java (from java-common package) to 
openjdk-7 on kfreebsd-{i386,amd64}. I'm just waiting for OK from release team 
before upload.

>  * Retry everything that failed to build before
>  * Probably BinNMU everything already built. Probably not strictly
>    necessary but both, Damien and Steven think it's a good idea. If I
>    understood everything correct both, the old and the BinNMUed packages
>    should work with either JDK so no "transition" needed
> 
> Comments? Opinions? I'm also still to reach for some chat at Debconf
> untill tomorrow noon.

Like already said @debconf today, that's plan look ok for me.

Cheers,
Damien