On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:23:43 +0100 Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hello Hello, this is an individual response. > I would like to see if we could finally try to stabilize java7 on > Gentoo as some external tools start to require it. > > There is currently this tracker opened: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384609 > > I am unsure why: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483018 > > should block the stabilization as we can have multiple java versions > installed due slots Multiple stable Java versions means more work; so, you'll instead want to bring incompatible packages forward to Java 7 or mask and lastrite them as time goes by. > The tracker list two broken packages that would need either patching > or to be forced to use older slots and this one: Under the work train of thoughts, an older slot is a temporary measure. > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515830 > > That looks more important. Then, I also wonder about what > implementations are we meant to look for this stabilization. Should we > look for bugs affecting icedtea-bin and also oracle's implementation? If you look at the history, multiple implementations are stabilized; this means that bugs should indeed look at whether they affect both versions. In general, fixing a bug for one implementation fixes it for the other implementation or the other implement didn't even have the bug to begin with; but that shouldn't fool us to check them both out. > (I was wondering if the tracker was really collecting all the > issues :/) Doubtful. A tree wide check is necessary to confirm that all Java based packages build with the to be stabilized Java 7 implementations.
