Bug#782770: unblock: openjdk-7/7u79-2.5.5-1

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

tOn Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:03:02PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> 
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 05:23:39PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Please unblock package openjdk-7. It fixes multiple security
> > issues. ATM the build failed on mips (that was sorted
> > out with a rebuild the last time w/o any source changes)
> 
> I can't get MIPS to build and this isn't going to make the final migrations
> before release. Would you rather a DSA or proposed-updates?

Then we'll need an additional DSA for jessie-security, stealing
our time for a toy port noone uses in practice. Awesome.

I'm really annoyed with the MIPS porters. If openjdk fails to
build on MIPS w/o manual builds, why did they paper over this
with manual builds? If openjdk fails to autobuild on mips, by
all mean drop support for it!

For stretch we should limit openjdk support archs official
supported by upstream, even if it means killing lots of Java
reverse deps for fringe ports.

We haven't had openjdk built across all "supported" archs
for a long time. Look at the mess in proposed-updates:
https://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/stable.html

Cheers,
        Moritz