Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> writes: > the latest icedtea-ified JDK has not yet been released, but this doesn’t > mean we can’t package it. > > Attached is a patch to add “icedtea-8” (because it provides the JDK for > Java version 1.8). It uses the upstream tarball for version 3.0.0pre09, > which I had to mirror on my own server because the Guile HTTP client > doesn’t like an invalid header in the response from > http://icedtea.classpath.org.
On IRC there was the idea to provide “url-fetch/wget” which would be less strict compared to the default Guile HTTP client. > The version is declared as “2.99.99-pre09” so that version “3.0.0” (when > it is finally released) will be considered an update. Does it make sense to push this patch to master? Or should we wait for an official release? Java 1.8 is already pretty old and it seems like the pre-release is enough to build OpenJDK 8. ~~ Ricardo
