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



* Torsten Werner:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
>> How does that follow?  These kinds of updates are sort of allowed for
>> sun-java6 because it's non-free so there's no choice.  That does not
>> apply to openjdk, as far as I know.
>
> I think that openjdk is not that different. Oracle does not release
> small patches. They release several non-free binary tarballs
> (sun-java6) and a GPL-2 source tarball (openjdk). It is almost
> impossible to extract individual fixes from the source tarball.

Have there been any OpenJDK 6 releases at all?

AFAICT, Debian is actually shipping IcedTea releases, but those are
re-rebranded as IcedTea.

(Now building with with_plugin_pkg=no, let's see if the result will be
usable.)


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