AW: Beginner's Question on Java Security Fixes

2013-05-08 Thread Markus Karg
.is.w...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.w...@gmail.com] Im Auftrag von Paul Wise Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013 08:36 An: debian-java@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Beginner's Question on Java Security Fixes On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Markus Karg wrote: > Maybe there is a misunderstanding.

Re: Beginner's Question on Java Security Fixes

2013-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Markus Karg wrote: > Maybe there is a misunderstanding. I am running Debian Wheezy, neither jessie > nor sid. Certainly I want the best stability and security. Using Oracle's > product, this would result in manually installing 7u21. But what if using > openjdk-7-

AW: Beginner's Question on Java Security Fixes

2013-05-07 Thread Markus Karg
ht- Von: paul.is.w...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.w...@gmail.com] Im Auftrag von Paul Wise Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013 07:57 An: debian-java@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Beginner's Question on Java Security Fixes On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Markus Karg wrote: > Thank you for your ki

Re: Beginner's Question on Java Security Fixes

2013-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Markus Karg wrote: > Thank you for your kind answer. So this means there is no simple answer like > e. g. "On Debian, openjdk-7-jre-2.x has the same security level than OpenJDK > 7u21", but I have to check each single CVE, right? In general, if you are running th

AW: Beginner's Question on Java Security Fixes

2013-05-07 Thread Markus Karg
@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.w...@gmail.com] Im Auftrag von Paul Wise Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013 07:38 An: debian-java@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Beginner's Question on Java Security Fixes On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Markus Karg wrote: > While programming for more than 25 years (more than

Re: Beginner's Question on Java Security Fixes

2013-05-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Markus Karg wrote: > While programming for more than 25 years (more than a decade with Java SE / > EE), I am still a beginner with Debian. So please don’t mind my possibly > stupid question: Looking at all the security fixes that Oracle provides, I > wonder how I ca

Beginner's Question on Java Security Fixes

2013-05-07 Thread Markus Karg
While programming for more than 25 years (more than a decade with Java SE / EE), I am still a beginner with Debian. So please don't mind my possibly stupid question: Looking at all the security fixes that Oracle provides, I wonder how I can see what of these fixes are contained in Debian? I mean, f