Re: openjdk version in testing is too old.

["Roman V.Leon." <roman-vl@meta.ua>]

On 26.02.2013 21:09, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
> On 02/23/2013 02:06 AM, Roman V.Leon. wrote:
> > Hi mates.
> > Please advise, why openjdk-7 version is too old in testing?
> > Debian testing repo: 7u3-2.1.3-1 0
> > Debian experimental repo: 7u15-2.3.7-1 0
> >
> > Considering the fact that there were a few major vulnerabilities in JRE
> > recently, I don't see other ways of installing JRE on Debian except for
> > downloading it straight from oracle.com, because the version from
> > testing should not be used due to security issues. Or did i miss
> > something?
>
> OpenJDK is always going to lag behind in Debian. If this bothers you, go
> upstream.
>
> My solution: I dropping my last "needs Java" service, and I'll be
> dropping Java along with it.

Thanks mate, but it'll be a problem in my case, since I use this 
language to earn some money for a living ;-)

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Cheers,
Roman V.Leon.