On 01/10/2012 07:17 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > On 10 January 2012 13:04, e-letter <inpost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Readers, >> >> Would someone advise whether the distribution of an obsolete version >> of java should be reported as a bug; >> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=827 > Why is this a bug? The bug comments mention that the latest CentOS 6 > has 1.10.4 which is supported by the Icedtea people. I quote from the > comments: > > ---8<------------------------------------ > The newest version of IcedTea in CentOS6 (6.2) is 1.10.4: > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6.2/os/i386/Packages/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.41.1.10.4.el6.i686.rpm > ---8<------------------------------------ > > Thus ypgrade your CentOS to the latest point release as a minimum as > suggested in the issue you raised. Again from the issue raised, the > following link is pretty enlightening: > > http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-6e2c3746ec45ac3142917466760321e868f43c0e > This is the critical point ... you are using an unsupported version of icedtea 1.7.4 (or java-1.6.0-openjdk if you prefer that name). However, if you do an update then you will have a supported version of icedtea (version 1.10.4). The only bug here is that you are not running updates :D
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