Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-21 Thread Stefan Denker
Hello there, I've had some time to think about this, so here is my opinion: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:35:43PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > On 03/13/2013 12:39 PM, Stefan Denker wrote: >> Which "numerous challenges" are there concerning java in debian? I am >> trying to gather some time every w

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-13 Thread tony mancill
On 03/13/2013 12:39 PM, Stefan Denker wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:40:41AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: >> I certainly share your concern that there aren't more active maintainers >> for openjdk in Debian. I have the same concern for the other packages >> maintained by the Java Team. It woul

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-13 Thread Stefan Denker
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:40:41AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > I certainly share your concern that there aren't more active maintainers > for openjdk in Debian. I have the same concern for the other packages > maintained by the Java Team. It would be great to have (at least) 20 > additional acti

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-12 Thread tony mancill
On 03/12/2013 09:02 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 11.03.2013 04:47, schrieb tony mancill: >> On 03/07/2013 11:07 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: >>> Hello gentlemen. Could you advise please, why the JRE/JDK versions are >>> too old in Debian? There were a few security issues recently but current >>> vers

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-12 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 11.03.2013 00:47, tony mancill wrote: On 03/07/2013 11:07 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: Hello gentlemen. Could you advise please, why the JRE/JDK versions are too old in Debian? There were a few security issues recently but current version in testing is still 7u3, while the oracle version is alrea

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-12 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 11.03.2013 04:47, schrieb tony mancill: > On 03/07/2013 11:07 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: >> Hello gentlemen. Could you advise please, why the JRE/JDK versions are >> too old in Debian? There were a few security issues recently but current >> version in testing is still 7u3, while the oracle versio

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-12 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 10.03.2013 04:10, schrieb d...@zorglub.s.bawue.de: > Hi, > > On 09/03/13 14:20, Roman V.Leon. wrote: >> Eric thank you for the broad answer. > You're welcome. > >> >> > One reason is surely manpower, so you are more than welcome to help. >> >> With pleasure, just do not know how to start, so

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-10 Thread tony mancill
On 03/07/2013 11:07 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote: > Hello gentlemen. > Could you advise please, why the JRE/JDK versions are too old in Debian? > 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

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-09 Thread deb
Hi, On 09/03/13 14:20, Roman V.Leon. wrote: Eric thank you for the broad answer. You're welcome. > One reason is surely manpower, so you are more than welcome to help. With pleasure, just do not know how to start, so if you have some "dirty work" to do, please send me a link where i could

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-09 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 08.03.2013 12:48, Andreas Kuckartz wrote: 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 someth

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-09 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 08.03.2013 11:57, Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: Hi, Roman V.Leon. said: Hello gentlemen. Could you advise please, why the JRE/JDK versions are too old in Debian? There were a few security issues recently but current version in testing is still 7u3, while the oracle version is already 7u17. I

Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-08 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
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: Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-08 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Roman V.Leon. said: > Hello gentlemen. > Could you advise please, why the JRE/JDK versions are too old in Debian? > 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

Too old JRE/JDK in repos

2013-03-07 Thread Roman V.Leon.
Hello gentlemen. Could you advise please, why the JRE/JDK versions are too old in Debian? 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 f