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[peter green <plugwash@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Version: 7u71-2.5.3-2
This isn't limited to the testing/unstable version of openjdk-7. I just 
encountered it with while merging the raspbian changes into wheezy's 
openjdk-6 and I strongly suspect it affects all versions of openjdk-6 
and openjdk-7 in all releases of Debian.

Moritz Mühlenhoff write:
> Patch attached, this fixes the build for me.
>   
What concerns me is that while this fixes this particular case it 
doesn't fix the root cause. Basically it appears that any currency which 
has a transition rule also has a timebomb 10 years after the transition 
date and it appears there are at least a couple more timebombs set to go 
off in the not too distant future.

Personally I would rather see the timebomb code removed/disabled. I do 
not belive Debian should knowingly be shipping timebombed code.

I have just prepared a patch against wheezy's openjdk-6 to disable the 
timebomb code. I have attatched this patch which I am currently in the 
process of testing.

Theres also the issue that new transitions don't seem to have been 
getting added to the file. I'm not sure how critical this is because I 
don't know how much software uses the data in question.

--- openjdk-ecj/jdk/make/tools/src/build/tools/generatecurrencydata/GenerateCurrencyData.java	2014-10-08 15:35:08.000000000 +0000
+++ openjdk/jdk/make/tools/src/build/tools/generatecurrencydata/GenerateCurrencyData.java	2015-01-16 20:04:19.000000000 +0000
@@ -281,9 +281,9 @@
             checkCurrencyCode(newCurrency);
             String timeString = currencyInfo.substring(4, length - 4);
             long time = format.parse(timeString).getTime();
-            if (Math.abs(time - System.currentTimeMillis()) > ((long) 10) * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000) {
-                throw new RuntimeException("time is more than 10 years from present: " + time);
-            }
+            //if (Math.abs(time - System.currentTimeMillis()) > ((long) 10) * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000) {
+            //    throw new RuntimeException("time is more than 10 years from present: " + time);
+            //}
             specialCaseCutOverTimes[specialCaseCount] = time;
             specialCaseOldCurrencies[specialCaseCount] = oldCurrency;
             specialCaseOldCurrenciesDefaultFractionDigits[specialCaseCount] = getDefaultFractionDigits(oldCurrency);