Hi, On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 11:49:33PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 02/08/16 19:48, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > 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. > > Uploaded. > > I'm not sure whether this deserves a DLA. Probably not, as openjdk-6 is > already > marked as unsupported, and there already was [1]. Though I could send > something > similar to that, without a DLA number, if that was deemed convenient. > Thoughts, > anyone?
I was under the impression that every upload to wheezy-security gets a DLA since it's a security archive. That's why I e.g. put out DLAs for enigmail and mozilla-devscripts although these weren't security updates per se but rebuilds due to the new icedove. Cheers, -- Guido
