Re: Time zone data for OpenJDK 8

2014-08-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > 5. Implement a java.time.zone.ZoneRulesProvider [3] that reads the TZif2 > files installed by the tzdata package in /usr/share/zoneinfo. This would > render the tzdata-java package obsolete in the long term. GNU ClassPath > has a TZif2 parser [4] that co

Re: Time zone data for OpenJDK 8

2014-08-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > 1. Do nothing. The timezone data will be updated with the quarterly > updates of OpenJDK. Sounds like OpenJDK has an embedded copy of tzdata? Can we get upstream to disentangle that, at least for their source releases? > 2. Copy the sources

Time zone data for OpenJDK 8

2014-08-07 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi all, There is a pending issue with the time zone data in openjdk-8 I'd like to discuss. Starting with OpenJDK 8 the format of the timezone data used by the Java runtime is different from the previous versions. With OpenJDK 6 & 7 there was a set of files, one per timezone, under the $JAVA_HOME/

Bug#602162: /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney: DST indistinguishable

2014-08-07 Thread Paul Eggert
This bug is fixed in the recently-released 2014f release of the tz database, and when that release propagates into Debian you should be able to close this bug report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Bug#757404: regexec: Please validate limits when using REG_STARTEND

2014-08-07 Thread Christoph Biedl
Package: libc6 Version: 2.19-7 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, when the REG_STARTEND bit is set in eflags, regexec happily accepts anything that is set as begin and end offset of the actual string in rm_so and rm_eo. If undefined or set to inplausible values, regexec might take long