RFC: Future of java/openjdk6 and java/openjdk7

[Michael Osipov]

Am 2019-08-02 um 03:41 schrieb Greg Lewis:
> Oracle ended official releases of JDK 7 in April of 2015, and JDK 6 even
> earlier.  In the FreeBSD ports collection both java/openjdk6 and
> java/openjdk7 have fallen out of maintenance and are considerably behind
> in terms of updates (which likely include fixes for security
> vulnerabilities).  In addition, openjdk6 will soon become unbuildable in
> FreeBSD 12-STABLE based on
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234792
>
> With OpenJDK 8 having been the default JDK for a number of years now,
> OpenJDK 11 and 12 both being available (and soon 13) I would suggest
> that both openjdk6 and openjdk7 be removed, along with any ports
> depending explicitly on them(*) which are unable to be updated to use a
> newer version.

Being an Apache Maven PMC member and a happy FreeBSD user, we guarantee
that the entire Maven stack runs on top of Java 7+, so I run all
integration tests for all components I change on a regular basis on
several BSD boxes (home, work) to test compat outside of the monotonic
Windows/Linux world.

Just because Oracle does not provide any binary packages for Java 7 it
does not meean that it is not supported. There are a lot of vendors
still providing Java 7 packages, e.g, Azul Systems, RHEL, HPE for HP-UX
(Java SE 7 is supported till July 2022 and Java SE 8 is supported till
March 2025) and likely others.

Michael