[11u] OpenJDK 11.0.3 post GA fixes JDK-8210739 and JDK-8203679

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Sun Apr 21 22:20:00 UTC 2019


On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 6:22 PM Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>
> well, I consider this fifth element a bit of nonsense, at least for distro
> based
> rpm/deb packages.  Usually a package in the distro gets its version from
> the
> upstream release, and the packaging revision from the packaging changes.
> Adding
> the packaging revision doesn't make a new upstream source.  Or you could
> have
> separate source versions (including the "build" number, e.g. 11.0.3+b7-2),
> and
> binary version (11.0.3.0.2), but then users are a bit confused to track
> back
> source versions from binary versions. And even then you would mix native
> and
> upstream Debian version numbers which is discouraged by Debian policy.
>

Debian/Ubuntu package versions for OpenJDK work well - no reason to change.
The 4th or 5th JSR 223 version number may end up being useful to others not
working on an OS distro.


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