On 14.01.2011 20:46, Florian Weimer wrote:
* tony mancill:As per Section 5.8.5 of the Developer's Reference, I'd like to get confirmation from the Security Team that they are anticipating and approve of the upload of the new source version. (My apologies if this has already been covered; I joined the thread already in progress.)Would you please show us the debdiff to the version in squeeze, and the list of dependencies of the .deb file? Alternatively, please put the files on people.debian.org, so that we can have a look at them before the upload. Thanks for your support in this matter.
get the files from testing/unstable && touch debian/control.in && debian/rules debian/control
Do you plane to switch to IcedTea 1.9 or a later version during the squeeze release?
I will not do this myself, altough I would welcome this. Apparently Debian does allow these kind of update for the sun-java6 packages, so I would expect the same thing for openjdk-6. If somebody wants to go this track, some comments:
- 1.9 doesn't build on alpha and armel. You probably don't care about alpha, but armel. armel has it's own optimized interpreter for a 2x-4x speedup, which doesn't work yet with 1.9. You could continue to use 1.8 for armel and 1.9 for anything else. - 1.10 will be release in January, on top of 1.9, it splits out icedtea-web currently not in Debian. The good thing is the separation of javaws and the plugin from the rest of openjdk-6. The issues which are a bit more fragile are the update-java-alternatives changes required for this split.As an unrelated question, who commits into doing the openjdk-6 security updates at all for squeeze? The current model didn't work for lenny at all.
Matthias