On 01/08/16 23:26, Markus Koschany wrote: > On 01.08.2016 23:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> On 31/07/16 19:41, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 07:34:28PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Currently, icedtea-plugin depends on icedtea-6-plugin, i.e. Java6. Given >>>> openjdk-6 is unsupported, we should change it to depend on icedtea-7-plugin >>>> instead. See the attached source debdiff (the control file is >>>> autogenerated). >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> If no-one objects, I will upload that soon. >>>> >>> >>> It looks good to me. >> >> Markus said on IRC that another option was to mark icedtea-plugin and >> icedtea-6-plugin as unsupported. However, I think we should only do that for >> icedtea-6-plugin, and update the metapackage to depend on Java7. > > Yes, it wouldn't hurt to update the dependency package icedtea-plugin. > As far as I know it has no important reverse-dependencies though, for > instance OpenJDk 6 only suggests it. So we could also just mark it as > unsupported but I leave the decision up to you.
I think icedtea-plugin should be kept updated and point to the supported version, so that people can keep it installed and automatically get the next supported version when/if it is changed again, whether in Wheezy or in future releases. Since the change is simple, I'll look at uploading it soon. Cheers, Emilio