Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

[Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>]

Am 22.03.2013 19:08, schrieb Moritz Mühlenhoff:
> Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> schrieb:
>>> 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).
>>
>> I won't upload this myself. IcedTea 7-2.3 uses two hotspot versions, one for the
>> zero ports, one for the hotspot runtimes. From my point of view it would be good
>> to update to a 7-2.[45] with a unified hotspot version capable to build both
>> zero and hotspot, and keep the current 7-2.1.x for now.
> 
> (I'm not familiar with icedtea development policies and I don't use Java except
> for freecol. My only interest is avoiding future security disasters for 
> stable-security.)
> 
> What are the effective consequences for openjdk-7 in Wheezy? Will only the branch
> in experimental be supported with future releases or both?

IcedTea probably will support the 2.3 branch a bit longer, however the 2.3
branch does include two hotspot versions (one for Hotspot, and one for Zero). I
would prefer to only update testing/unstable to a 2.x version, if Zero builds
with a current Hotspot version.

> Are there currently security fixes missing in unstable in comparison to experimental?

both unstable and experimental were missing the latest updates. now uploaded
2.1.7-1 to unstable.

  Matthias