What about building an android rom image? I believe that still needs openjdk6? Nab On 14 June 2012 19:37, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 06/13/2012 12:32 PM, Andreas Radke wrote: > >> Oracle has declared JRE/JDK7 the preferred one over JRE/JDK6. So it >> should be now stable enough to replace Java6 for everyone also in the >> OpenJDK community releases. >> >> I'm asking if there's somebody still in the need to use openjdk6 for >> certain apps that fail to run with openjdk7? If so please report it >> upstream. >> >> I know there's are still some commercial java apps that will only run >> on the Oracle JRE6 or JRE7 but I ask only if somebody prefers openjdk6 >> in our repos over java7-openjdk. >> >> I'd like to drop openjdk6 when the next security update will be >> released if possible. >> >> -Andy >> > > Andy, > > The only issue I've run into lately is the build requirement of 'libhpi'. > I can't recall which package needed it, but it was only available in > openjdk6 and is dropped from 7. I don't know how many other libs differ > between 6 & 7, but for all packages that need libhpi openjdk6 is still > required. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. >
