Pushing back the IcedTea6 1.11 release: 2012-01-25

[Andrew Haley]

On 01/23/2012 09:21 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 01/18/2012 11:23 AM, Omair Majid wrote:
>>> How does 1 week (2012-01-25) sound?
>>>
>>
>> Things are looking much better with the arm stuff now. It looks like
>> IcedTea6 1.11 on 2012-01-25 will be doable.
>>
> 
> I don't think this is a good idea.  There's an upcoming security release
> that will make such a release obsolete just three weeks after:
> 
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html
> 
> Would it not be better to just wait and release 1.11 with these security
> fixes?

I'm not sure what the advantage of waiting is.  It'd reduce the work
needed, certainly, but it'd also mean that the Fedora distro would have
to wait an extra three weeks.

Andrew.