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| From | Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.maint.java |
| Subject | Re: openjdk-8 re-uploaded to unstable (currently in NEW) |
| Date | 2019-05-27 22:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <y2upQ-1vC-23@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <y26Qx-3Ni-7@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 09:13:38PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> The openjdk-8 packages which were unfortunately removed from unstable (although
> the issue #915620 only asked for the removal of some binaries), are now again in
> NEW, targeting unstable. One of the FTP assistants is objecting to the upload
> to unstable, apparently because somebody (security team, Moritz?) asked to
> restore these packages in experimental instead of unstable. Otoh, we still need
> these packages in unstable to bootstrap kotlin (yes we can bootstrap in
> experimental, but then it's not assured how to build kotlin for unstable with an
> experimental build).
>
> I honestly don't understand why FTP master would have such an objection, so
> please clarify what prohibits the acceptance to unstable with an RC issue to not
> propagate these packages to testing.
I don't see any issue with these re-entering unstable. For openjdk-7 we only
kept it in experimental as they were exclusively used to stage the -security
uploads, but if there are other use cases like kotlin it seems perfectly
fine to keep it in unstable as well.
Cheers,
Moritz
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openjdk-8 re-uploaded to unstable (currently in NEW) Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2019-05-26 21:20 +0200
Re: openjdk-8 re-uploaded to unstable (currently in NEW) Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2019-05-26 23:50 +0200
Re: openjdk-8 re-uploaded to unstable (currently in NEW) Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2019-05-27 22:30 +0200
Re: openjdk-8 re-uploaded to unstable (currently in NEW) Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2019-05-27 23:10 +0200
Re: openjdk-8 re-uploaded to unstable (currently in NEW) Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2019-05-27 23:10 +0200
Re: openjdk-8 re-uploaded to unstable (currently in NEW) Saif Abdul Cassim <saif.15@cse.mrt.ac.lk> - 2019-05-28 11:50 +0200
Re: openjdk-8 re-uploaded to unstable (currently in NEW) John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2019-05-28 11:50 +0200
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