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[David Ayers <ayers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag, den 04.12.2014, 12:12 +0100 schrieb Matthias Klose:
> 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.

Thanks!

> > 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 ...

FWIW, I personally can wait:

a) I also don't have any GUI applications. (But I'm not sure if some of
the Java PDF Tools may use the fonts for embedding if those fonts are
used.)

b) I have simply reverted that part on my production systems.

So no hurry on my part.

Cheers,
David

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