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Re: Bug#786895: lintian: incompatible-java-bytecode-format warning needs update for Java 1.7

On Tue, 26 May 2015, Niels Thykier wrote:

> I agree that the is a good idea to clarify this.  My personal
> recommendation is to declare that:
> 
>  * gcj-jdk is not considered a suitable Java implementation for our end
>    users nor for implementing the default-java.

Please do not do that. Way too much software, even *really* deep
down in the cycle, things like gettext, depend on default-jdk and
build java versions of their libraries. Even if they don’t work
as well as the OpenJDK versions, or don’t work at all, they still
prevent the source packages FTBFSing and provide Build-Depends for
lots of other packages.

If you really want to go this route, please ensure that Debian can
still work on OpenJDK-less architectures first, by removing the
java packages from all those source packages.

Thanks.

bye,
//mirabilos
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