Am Donnerstag, den 04.12.2014, 12:12 +0100 schrieb Matthias Klose: > On 12/04/2014 11:49 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Hello David, > > > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, David Ayers wrote: > >> I have just installed openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b33-1.13.5-2~deb6u1 on a > >> production system. I keep track of /etc in a repository and noticed the > >> following changes: > > > > Thanks for the report. That's the kind of regression that we like to > > discover before release, hence I encourage you to install packages that we > > submit for test on debian-lts@lists.debian.org :-) > > > > That said, this problem also affects > > openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b33-1.13.5-2~deb7u1 in wheezy-security. OpenJDK > > is special in that the package maintainer does support building > > backports out of the current package in sid. So this is in fact > > a regression in the packaging... hence I'm including the Open JDK > > packaging team in the discussion (and Matthias Klose in particular > > since he added the patch which changed this file: > > see fontconfig-dejavu.patch in > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openjdk/openjdk/openjdk6/revision/569). > > fixed in the VCS.
Thanks! > > Matthias, are the changes problematic enough to warrant pushing an > > immediate update or can it wait until the next upstream release? > > (See below for the changes) > > well, it will fall back to some other font, afaik. Honestly I don't run any > UI > applications in older releases, and I assume most people use it for server > applications only. The next batch of security updates is again planned for > Jan > 2015. If it can wait until then ... FWIW, I personally can wait: a) I also don't have any GUI applications. (But I'm not sure if some of the Java PDF Tools may use the fonts for embedding if those fonts are used.) b) I have simply reverted that part on my production systems. So no hurry on my part. Cheers, David -- David Ayers IntarS Austria - http://www.intars.at/ - ay...@intars.at Tel: +43 / 1 / 890 1263 Perfektastrasse 25/6/28 Fax: +43 / 1 / 890 1263-15 A-1230 Vienna Mob: +43 / 664 / 171 4511 Austria
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