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[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/02/2017 10:21 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Well, this one is a serious crasher, and it only affects Zero,
> so it's possible.  On the other hand, we could just patch the
> packages.  I'll put it in to JDK 10.

My general stance on patches is to avoid carrying them around in distributions
but rather get them merged upstream. This way the fix is available to all
downstreams and not just Debian. Plus, it reduces the burden of the package
maintainer of carrying around patches and rebasing them.

So, if it were possible to get this fix into JDK9 as well, that would be
great! Besides Debian, Gentoo and openSUSE still have releases for PPC32,
so they would profit from having the fix merged for JDK9 as well.

Thanks,
Adrian

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