Le lundi 14 juin 2010 à 13:25 +0200, Jarek Kamiński a écrit : > Na grupie linux.debian.devel napisałe(a)ś: > > I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this > > leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun > > is unwilling to fix. > > Unless the maintainer believes that we can get a fixed version before > > the release then I propose to stop setting bindv6only=3D1 by default. > > While it was a useful experiment, since it allowed to expose and fix a > > fair number of bugs, it should not compromise the general usability of > > Debian systems. > > I see only two ways of fixing proprietary Java (apart from fixing it > upstream or ignoring the problem): > * wrap java and java_vm binaries in some scripts setting LD_PRELOAD (in > Debian package) This won't work in some cases. Some native programs instantiate a JVM from C/C++.
> or > * allow sun-java6-* packages to override bindv6only sysctl. Is it allowed by the Debian policy ? > I can't say I like any of these approaches (although I currently do the > first on my systems). > > I hope Oracle will eventually fix the bug in Java allowing the change in > (some) stable Debian release There is no interest from Oracle on this issue: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6342561 > (or OpenJDK will replace Sun's Java completely). Last time I heard, Java 7 was expected for September 2010 but I am not counting on it. Sylvestre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1276516044.21869.19032.ca...@korcula.inria.fr
