Re: OpenJDK / default JDK for squeeze / issues on mips / open security issues for lenny

[Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>]

On 22.12.2010 06:32, tony mancill wrote:
> On 12/17/2010 06:24 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > On 17.12.2010 15:16, tony mancill wrote:
> > > On 12/13/2010 03:22 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > > On 14.12.2010 00:19, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 17:21 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > > > > * Matthias Klose:
> > > > > > > For those who are interested in an openjdk-6 update for stable, I did
> > > > > > > prepare an update for some architectures at
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >      deb http://people.debian.org/~doko/archive stable/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cool, it's based on OpenJDK 6b18.  However, we can't upload it as-is
> > > > > > because the version number is greater than the one in testing.
> > > > >
> > > > > That's no longer the case, fwiw; testing has 6b18-1.8.2-4.
> > > >
> > > > so please use the one from unstable, re-generate the control file on a
> > > > stable system, and re-upload.
> > > >
> > > >     Matthias
> > >
> > > Hello Matthias -
> > >
> > > I'm able to build the version from unstable fine (it took 530 minutes...
> > > :)  I want to make sure I understand what you mean by "re-generate the
> > > control file on a stable system" - this simply means building the
> > > current source package in a clean squeeze chroot, right?
> >
> > before doing this: touch debian/rules&&  debian/rules debian/control.
> >
> >    Matthias
>
> Hello Matthias, Florian:
>
> After tweaking the build-deps a bit to adjust for "lenny-ness," the package
> builds in a clean i386 lenny chroot, and all of the resulting binary packages
> install.  I have a couple questions:
>
> First, I am assuming that I should set the version number to be
> 6b18-1.8.3-2+lenny1 and upload to stable-security with urgency=high.  Can you
> confirm that this is the desired target?

2+lenny1 is newer than testing/unstable. please coordinate with -security and/or 
the stable release managers about the target.

> Second, can I simply drop the dependency openjdk-6-jre-headless has on
> ca-certificates-java?  This package doesn't exist in Debian lenny.

no, please apply the attached patch and regenerate the control file.

--- rules	2010-12-01 10:04:36 +0000
+++ rules	2010-12-22 08:56:16 +0000
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@
   control_vars += '-Vjvm:Provides=java-virtual-machine'
 endif

-ifeq (,$(filter $(distrel), dapper))
+ifeq (,$(filter $(distrel), lenny dapper))
   pkg_certs = ca-certificates-java
 endif
 control_vars += '-Vcacert:Depends=$(pkg_certs)'