On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:07:30AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Moritz Muehlenhoff: > > > As for stable/oldstable: I noticed that Red Hat provided packages for > > update 29 for RHEL 4 (RHEL 5 onwards use OpenJDK): > > http://lwn.net/Articles/463919/ > > If anyone remembers the rationale behind the DLJ, perhaps they can > check if the current BCL matches our needs, too? The licensing > conditions for the stock JDK distribution probably have changed since > the Oracle acquisition, and perhaps these changes are sufficient to > permit redistribution by Debian. > > I have also uploaded the fixes for openjdk-6 to security-master (for > squeeze). It's currently stuck in the unchecked queue, along with the > still-missing previous update for lenny.
Florian, what's the status of openjdk6 for stable/oldstable? Java maintainers, shall we proceed with removal from stable/oldstable for the next point releases? sun-java6 will still be kept on existing installations, but we avoid new installations with the insecure JVM. Cheers, Moritz __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.