Re: Java Policy Question

[Juergen Kreileder <kreilede@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:

    Stephane> On Friday 10 September 1999, at 10 h 2, the keyboard of
    Stephane> David Warnock <david@sundayta.co.uk> wrote:

    >> a) often need newer versions than have been packaged eg we had problems
    >> with jdk1.1.7 and are now using jdk1.1.7b which is not packaged in
    >> potato.

    Stephane> IMHO, this should be a bug/wishlist against the jdk1.1
    Stephane> package. The maintainer is quite overloaded but reads
    Stephane> and processes the bugs.
 
117v2 is based on Sun's JDK-1.1.7B.  117v3 basically is 117v2+some
swing mnemonic bug fixes.  The reason that potato still uses v2 is
that it is a real glibc-2.1 build, we've never released a glibc-2.1
version of v3.  
Anyhow, 1.1.8 will be released soon.


        Juergen

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