On 24 Mar 2015, at 17:46, Moritz Mühlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> wrote: > > Francis Devereux <fran...@devrx.org> schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> According to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html, Oracle >> JDK 7 will reach "end of public updates" status in April. I believe that >> OpenJDK 7 will reach EOL at the same time or soon afterwards. >> >> Will the openjdk-7 packages in wheezy continue to receive security updates >> after this date, or should I plan to move to, for example, OpenJDK 8, if I >> need a security-supported version of Java? > > We're using icedtea instead of the Oracle releases and icedtea has longer > support time frame, e.g. Java 6 is EOLed by Oracle for a long time while > new releases for icedtea are still made.
Thanks Moritz, that's good news. I can't find any details of icedtea's security support lifecycle on their website so I might email their mailing list. What I'm trying to do is get an understanding of how long the Debian openjdk-7 packages are likely to be supported for so that we have plenty of advance warning before we need to upgrade - my company maintains lots of servers running our Java applications and it'll take us a while to upgrade/migrate all of them. Thanks, Francis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/3fc1947c-c506-4e36-80bf-48df2cb55...@devrx.org
