Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 18:41:49 -0700 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: java@freebsd.org Subject: RFC: Future of java/openjdk6 and java/openjdk7 Message-ID: <20190802014149.GA59118@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Oracle ended official releases of JDK 7 in April of 2015, and JDK 6 even earlier. In the FreeBSD ports collection both java/openjdk6 and java/openjdk7 have fallen out of maintenance and are considerably behind in terms of updates (which likely include fixes for security vulnerabilities). In addition, openjdk6 will soon become unbuildable in FreeBSD 12-STABLE based on https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234792 With OpenJDK 8 having been the default JDK for a number of years now, OpenJDK 11 and 12 both being available (and soon 13) I would suggest that both openjdk6 and openjdk7 be removed, along with any ports depending explicitly on them(*) which are unable to be updated to use a newer version. However, I wanted to get an idea of how many people are explicitly using either openjdk6 or openjdk7 and can't update to at least openjdk8. If so, what is limiting you and are you prepared to work on updating the ports to the latest version? My effort at the moment is focused entirely on openjdk8 and higher, and openjdk11 in particular. I feel it would be counter-productive to spend time on openjdk6 and openjdk7 other than to remove them. I'm open to committing patches if people are willing to take over maintenance on them though. -- Greg * - The ports which appear to allow only openjdk6 or openjdk7 are: math/jakarta-commons-math (either) java/jakarta-commons-dbcp (6) devel/storm (7) devel/py-pydoop (7) All of these appear to have newer versions that support at least Java 8.
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