FreeBSD Port: java/openjdk6

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 12:33:11PM -0600, John Marino wrote:
> Openjdk6 has reached EOL (Dec 2016)
> Ref: 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2016-October/003606.html
> 
> Isn't it time to deprecate on ports?
> 
> John

Since then there has been a new project lead appointed

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2017-January/003625.html

and a new release

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2017-January/003615.html

In short, the proposed EoL ended instead in a new maintainer.  As long as
they keep backporting patches it seems reasonable to keep it in ports as
long as the maintainer is willing.

That said, there is a separate question of how useful it is.  As more and
more Java software removes support for JDK 6 its usefulness diminishes.
I think that is the more compelling discussion about whether to keep it
going and in what form.  E.g. should it remain as a port but be removed
from javavm as an option?

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