New archive uploaded for 8u272?

[Andrew Hughes]

On 12:00 Sat 14 Nov     , Noah wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> First of all I hope that I am on the right list for this topic. Excuse
> me if I am not.
> 
> It looks like there was a new archive uploaded for the jdk8u272 release.
> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/archive/jdk8u272-ga.tar.bz2 (and
> others)
> 
> At Homebrew we are therefore dealing with a mismatched checksum, find
> more details on https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/64536
> 
> Was this an intentional upload / "release"?
> 
> This could have something to do with
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2020-November/012947.html
> (?)
> 
> Best regards,
> Noah
> 

That's not an upload, but an auto-generated Mercurial archive (and thus
subject to change).

The source tarballs for the releases are those listed (with checksums) in
the release announcements:

8u272: https://bitly.com/openjdk8u272
8u275: https://bitly.com/openjdk8u275

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
OpenJDK Package Owner
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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