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[Julien Cristau <jcristau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 16:33:17 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:

> security support for openjdk in debian has always been a bit flaky. packages in
> edgy were not updated anymore, and updates to squeeze come late.  So the
> "support" from Oracle was/is not used by the security team even when the
> security updates from Oracle are available.  Certainly the situation doesn't get
> better, if Oracle's support is limited to openjdk7 only, however there should be
> the possibility to backport the patches to openjdk6, which will get harder, the
> more the hotspot version diverges in newer openjdk7 builds.
> 
Are you, as the maintainer, going to do that?

Cheers,
Julien