Hi Jonathan, Le 18/01/2015 23:21, Jonathan Yu a écrit :
> I wonder if there's anything that can (or should) be done to address > Gil's criticisms. I love Debian and would always prefer to install > things via apt-get from the official repositories rather than > download/install third-party packages, so it would be nice to address > these issues. Gil is right to point out that the current version of the openjdk-8 package (8u40 build 09) doesn't match an official Java release, it's an intermediary build of the upcoming Java 8u40. I have no idea if it's TCK compliant, but it contains more bug fixes than the latest official Java 8 version available (8u25). Regardless of the TCK compliance, if you are going to use a new version of the JDK in production you have to test it thoroughly with your application. This is true with any JDK, be it the Oracle one, a Debian/Fedora/Gentoo OpenJDK build or the little-known Zulu JDK. The mere TCK compliance doesn't protect you against subtle regressions, no test suite does. About the TCK, Canonical is a licensee [1] and most certainly run it on their openjdk-8 package for Ubuntu. If a compatibility issue was to be found I'm pretty confident the fix would be shared with the Debian package. Also I've requested an access to the TCK for Java 8 in June to run it on the Debian packages but I haven't heard back from Oracle yet. Emmanuel Bourg [1] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/conformance/JckAccess/jck-access.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54bcec01.4000...@apache.org
