Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-java (15 mails)

[Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 12:28:59AM -0500, Manfred Riem wrote:
> While I would not consider it ideal I would recommend keeping the last
> JDK 1.6 version that still is covered by the DLJ and ship the OpenJDK
> releases
> as well.

As it was announced - the Java:sun:Factory wont be removed, so you can
get dlj packages from here. The biggest change is it will not be updated
as the cirumstances has been changed by Oracle.

> There are some issues with OpenJDK 6 that prevent some applications from
> working. 
>
> For the JDK 1.6 version a warning should/could be popped up when installing
> stating it is on its way out and is merely available as a convenience. This
> would
> give applications time to repackage until 12.2?

No, if we know we cannot provide security updates, we can only drop the
package from Factory.

Regards
Michal Vyskocil

 
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