Re: Too old JRE/JDK in repos
Am 10.03.2013 04:10, schrieb deb@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 if you have some "dirty
>> work" to do, please send me a link where i could find more information
>> about that.
> It's more for the active maintainers of this package (AFAIK, they are on this
> list) to answer.
> In general, you can check the package's QA page [1] and see which bugs have been
> raised and, depending on your level of expertise, try to reproduce them, fix
> them, provide a patch, etc...
> Another thing is testing with OpenJDK7 & potentially fixing all kind of packages
> relying today on OpenJDK6.
>
> But, again, you should do any of this in coordination with the maintainers.
>
> Else there was recently a somewhat related discussion [2]
people seem to miss the fact there are no really active maintainers for
OpenJDK-7 at the moment.
Matthias
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