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

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:45:46PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 26/05/2015 16:52, Rene Engelhard a écrit :
> 
> > I think we should decide what our Java baseline is and how it affects
> > release archs_before_ changing this.
> 
> The best we can do I think is to identify the applications that should
> work with GCJ (Ant and LibreOffice for example) and ensure their
> dependencies are still compatible with the Java 5 API. But as Niels

Well, for some LO subpackages it's already too late (*commons* used b
-report-builder apparently does use 1.6+-only now), but yeah.

> stated it's impossible to keep the Java 5 compatibility everywhere (Java
> 9 will even be unable to generate Java 5 bytecode [1]).

I know, there at least we need to kill gcj support. But until then. Or
we decide we don't care ab out 1.5/gcj now. Explicitely.

Regards,

Rene
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