Re: Bug#675495: downgrading the severity of #675495 (openjdk-6 in wheezy)

[David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>]

On 28 November 2012 16:20, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:

> OpenJDK Security support has always been a nightmare for the security
> team because there was no support from the maintainers. Security support
> s primarily the responsibility of the maintainer.


I understood the plan for OpenJDK 6 was that the teams from Red Hat
and Canonical, who are supporting OSes that include OpenJDK 6 for a
few years to come, were going to take on maintenance, presumably
including security - is this not the case? (I apologise if I have been
keeping insufficiently close track of things.)


- d.