Re: Release Goal: Switch to OpenJDK7

Julien Cristau: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 16:05:50 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: >> I would like to propose the following release goal to the release team >> for Jessie: >> https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/OpenJDK7 >> > Why does this need to be a release goal? OpenJDK6 is obsolete and OpenJDK8

GSoC project "OpenJDK and Debian" accepted

The GSoC proposal "OpenJDK and Debian" was accepted: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/shuxiong/29001 More details: http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/StudentApplications/ShuxiongYe Congratulations to the student, the mentor and Debian! Cheers, Andreas -- To UNS

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

Roman V.Leon.: > There were a few security issues recently but current version in testing > is still 7u3, while the oracle version is already 7u17. I can't see > other ways of installing java in Debian except for downloading from > oracle.com or I miss something? Thanks. Debian experimental has a

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

Moritz Mühlenhoff: > I'm not familiar with the Java internals, but if we're following that approach > it would make sense to upgrade Wheezy to the version in experimental > (i.e. 7u15 instead of 7u3). +1 (I am using the experimental version) Cheers, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

Niels Thykier: >> - Updating to openjdk-7 in wheezy would not solve any issues from my >>point of view, and it would need some porting of packages to 7, and >>probably removing some packages which are not yet ported. >>Otoh removing openjdk-7 for wheezy could be an option if only one >

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

Thanks a lot for explaining the situation and alternative paths forward. My view as a user: I only want OpenJDK7 (maybe OpenJDK8 when that becomes generally available on September 9, 2013 :-) Oracle has announced that no more new public updates of Java SE 6 will be made available after February

Re: Does JDK7 security hole affect OpenJDK6?

I found CVE-2013-0422 on the TODO list: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/todo Cheers, Andreas --- Andreas Kuckartz: > David Gerard: >> I would assume the recent JDK7 hole would also affect OpenJDK7, given >> they're pretty much the same codebase. >> &

Re: Does JDK7 security hole affect OpenJDK6?

David Gerard: > I would assume the recent JDK7 hole would also affect OpenJDK7, given > they're pretty much the same codebase. > > But OpenJDK6 is based on OpenJDK7, cut down to pass JCK6. Has anyone > checked if OpenJDK6 is vulnerable? CERT states this: "Systems Affected Any system using Oracl

Re: Installation of Sun JDK2 SDK

Thanks a lot. I will try that. Cheers, Andreas - Original Message - From: "Alessandro Polverini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andreas Kuckartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:07 PM Subject: Re: Install

Installation of Sun JDK2 SDK

I am looking for documentation describing all the steps which are necessary to install Sun JDK2 SDK on Debian (Sarge). So far I have found the Debian GNU/Linux Java FAQ (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/index.html). The section 11.2 describes some of the steps which are necessary