[CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Tue Jan 10 17:46:46 UTC 2012


On 01/10/2012 07:17 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> On 10 January 2012 13:04, e-letter <inpost at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Readers,
>>
>> Would someone advise whether the distribution of an obsolete version
>> of java should be reported as a bug;
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=827
> Why is this a bug? The bug comments mention that the latest CentOS 6
> has 1.10.4 which is supported by the Icedtea people. I quote from the
> comments:
>
> ---8<------------------------------------
> The newest version of IcedTea in CentOS6 (6.2) is 1.10.4:
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6.2/os/i386/Packages/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.41.1.10.4.el6.i686.rpm
> ---8<------------------------------------
>
> Thus ypgrade your CentOS to the latest point release as a minimum as
> suggested in the issue you raised. Again from the issue raised, the
> following link is pretty enlightening:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-6e2c3746ec45ac3142917466760321e868f43c0e
>

This is the critical point ... you are using an unsupported version of
icedtea 1.7.4 (or java-1.6.0-openjdk if you prefer that name).

However, if you do an update then you will have a supported version of
icedtea (version 1.10.4).  The only bug here is that you are not running
updates :D

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