replacing included 3rd party libraries with system libraries

[David Herron]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> Currently libraries like jpeg, zlib, lcms, png and maybe others are included in
> the installed runtime packages. Would it be possible to use the available system
> libraries instead of the included libraries? At least that would save
> distributors for security updates of the openjdk/iced package when one of these
> libraries is only affected.
>
>   Matthias
>
>   
As Tom said, this is being considered for the XCB fix (to dlopen the 
xinerama library if it's on the system)

I remember seeing requests in some of the mailing lists for projects to 
do some of these:

<AWT Dev> [PATCHes] Allow using system's copies of libjpeg, libpng and 
giflib for splashscreen 
<http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2007-June/000021.html>
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2007-June/000021.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2007-May/000000.html

Using system tzdata 
<http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2007-August/000066.html>
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2007-August/000066.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/i18n-dev/2007-August/000001.html

Generally this kind of change should be proposed in the relevant group 
mailing list.

- David Herron



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/attachments/20070829/02dc103f/attachment.html