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[Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/04/2014 11:49 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, David Ayers wrote:
> > I have just installed openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b33-1.13.5-2~deb6u1 on a
> > production system.  I keep track of /etc in a repository and noticed the
> > following changes:
>
> Thanks for the report. That's the kind of regression that we like to
> discover before release, hence I encourage you to install packages that we
> submit for test on debian-lts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx :-)
>
> That said, this problem also affects
> openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b33-1.13.5-2~deb7u1 in wheezy-security. OpenJDK
> is special in that the package maintainer does support building
> backports out of the current package in sid. So this is in fact
> a regression in the packaging... hence I'm including the Open JDK
> packaging team in the discussion (and Matthias Klose in particular
> since he added the patch which changed this file:
> see fontconfig-dejavu.patch in
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openjdk/openjdk/openjdk6/revision/569).

fixed in the VCS.

> Matthias, are the changes problematic enough to warrant pushing an
> immediate update or can it wait until the next upstream release?
> (See below for the changes)

well, it will fall back to some other font, afaik. Honestly I don't run any UI 
applications in older releases, and I assume most people use it for server 
applications only.  The next batch of security updates is again planned for Jan 
2015. If it can wait until then ...

  Matthias