Re: Will there be an openjdk-7 security update for wheezy?

[Francis Devereux <francis@devrx.org>]

Hi Raphael,

On 21 Mar 2014, at 08:56, Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Francis Devereux wrote:
> [...]
>> Should I expect a DSA / security update of openjdk-7 for wheezy which fixes
>> some/all of these vulnerabilities? If so should I expect to wait a while due
>> to the complexity of backporting OpenJDK security fixes (which I expect is
>> high)?
> 
> The issues would be fixed by the means of the upload of a new version of 
> OpenJDK to wheezy-security. However, last time I tried there were some bugs in 
> the new version that even prevented the test suite from finishing.
> 
> In other words, the security issues are going to be fixed whenever there is a 
> new version of OpenJDK that doesn't introduce too many known regressions and 
> that works at a minimum level.

Thanks for the information (and your work on this). Is the test suite something that would be easy for me to run myself?

Cheers,

Francis