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Bug 629252

Summary: dev-java/icedtea-4 version bump
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: R030t1
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: normal CC: alecm, chewi, dschridde+gentoobugs, java, jstein, kingjon3377, pacho, pascal, perfect007gentleman, proxy-maint, sam
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785640
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Description R030t1 2017-08-29 01:53:11 UTC
Mainstream distributions, e.g. Ubuntu, now ship OpenJDK 9. OpenJDK 9 adds important features that are useful to developers and could be considered a major development milestone.

Thank you for your consideration.
Comment 1 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev 2017-08-29 22:20:49 UTC
It will be IcedTea 4, not 9. Also IcedTea is not the same thing as OpenJDK so it's not actually ready yet. gnu_andrew has said that it shouldn't be too far away. Bear in mind that Java 9 isn't officially released until September 21st.
Comment 2 Dennis Schridde 2018-10-25 08:33:53 UTC
Should we open a separate bug for a future Java 10 version of icedtea?
Comment 3 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev 2018-10-25 08:48:29 UTC
(In reply to Dennis Schridde from comment #2)
> Should we open a separate bug for a future Java 10 version of icedtea?

No, unless we find any great need, I think we should just look towards the latest (currently 11) rather than keep old versions around. I've heard very little from gnu_andrew lately and he seems quite focused on RHEL, which means Java 7 and 8 only. I don't know whether IcedTea 4 would be Java 9 or 11 or whatever is the latest by the time he finally gets around to it, whenever that will be. In the mean time, an openjdk source package should be added in the next few days.
Comment 4 R030t1 2018-10-25 08:52:14 UTC
(In reply to Dennis Schridde from comment #2)
> Should we open a separate bug for a future Java 10 version of icedtea?

11 is already available, so I suspect there will be a package skip considering that there is not a huge interface gap between 10 and 11.
Comment 5 Perfect Gentleman 2020-10-27 05:00:19 UTC
How can IcedTea-4 block Libreoffice-7 if even it is not released yet?
Comment 6 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-10-27 05:04:10 UTC
I'm not sure we even need to wait on Java if it's possible to disable it.
Comment 7 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2020-10-28 20:39:18 UTC
(In reply to Sam James from comment #6)
> I'm not sure we even need to wait on Java if it's possible to disable it.

Because there are people who rely on it and a whole part of LibreOffice is otherwise broken.
Comment 8 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev 2020-10-28 20:42:39 UTC
(In reply to Perfect Gentleman from comment #5)
> How can IcedTea-4 block Libreoffice-7 if even it is not released yet?
virtual/jdk:11 package.mask does not come with a tracker bug and this was the next best thing available.
Comment 9 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2024-03-29 14:37:12 UTC
Package removed.