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Am 11.03.2013 04:47, schrieb tony mancill:
> On 03/07/2013 11:07 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote:
>> Hello gentlemen. Could you advise please, why the JRE/JDK versions are
>> too old in Debian? There were a few security issues recently but current
>> version in testing is still 7u3, while the oracle version is already
>> 7u17. I can't see other ways of installing java in Debian except for
>> downloading from oracle.com or I miss something? Thanks.
>> 
> 
> You also might try the make-jpkg command in java-package to build a .deb 
> from the Oracle for installation on your systems.
> 
> The usage is quite simple:
> 
> $ make-jpkg ~/Downloads/jdk-7u17-linux-x64.tar.gz
> 
> You'll need a version java-package from either testing or unstable.

I'm a bit surprised that you as a Debian developer propose to use the Oracle
JDK.  However it is not the first time you are doing that, after complaining
about OpenJDK-6 backporting, and then doing nothing about it.  With this kind
of attitude about not supporting OpenJDK in any form, we are forced to drop
Java from Debian at some point, because we will not be able build packages
anymore. Is this really what you want?

  Matthias
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