On 07/28/2010 06:44 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > OpenJDK was just uploaded to unstable, based on the IcedTea6-1.8.1 > release [1]. This version addresses some security issues, > and this version should be shipped with squeeze A group of Debian Java developers met tonight and agreed that we would not advocate OpenJDK changes for squeeze.
> openjdk-6 in stable didn't see any security updates for more than a > year. I don't plan to provide updates myself. Is the security team > interested in fixing these, or anybody else? And we agreed that openjdk-6 is what we want to use as default-jre on all platforms post squeeze. For the reasons you mention this will be a fairly substantial undertaking (does not build on mips sparc sparc64 hppa). We understand that maintaining openjdk-6 is more than packaging, it involves bug triage and security fixes as well. We welcome your critical feedback as we continue work on OpenJDK. Danke! --Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c5b7060.2070...@info9.net
