On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:45:46PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 26/05/2015 16:52, Rene Engelhard a écrit : > > > I think we should decide what our Java baseline is and how it affects > > release archs_before_ changing this. > > The best we can do I think is to identify the applications that should > work with GCJ (Ant and LibreOffice for example) and ensure their > dependencies are still compatible with the Java 5 API. But as Niels
Well, for some LO subpackages it's already too late (*commons* used b -report-builder apparently does use 1.6+-only now), but yeah. > stated it's impossible to keep the Java 5 compatibility everywhere (Java > 9 will even be unable to generate Java 5 bytecode [1]). I know, there at least we need to kill gcj support. But until then. Or we decide we don't care ab out 1.5/gcj now. Explicitely. Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150527094158.gd31...@rene-engelhard.de
