Re: [gentoo-dev] Java7 stabilization

[Tom Wijsman]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:23:43 +0100
Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> 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.