Bug 130151

Summary:	Java is outdated
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Markus KARG <markus.karg>
Component:	Java	Assignee:	Sonja Krause-Harder <skh>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Markus KARG 2005-10-22 13:25:50 UTC

SuSE should always contain the latest bug fixes and stable releases.
Containing outaged releases will bring instability and security problems with it.
Current 10.0 contains Sun's Java 1.4.2 (Bugfix _06) and Java 1.5.0 (Bugfix _03).
Sun provides (since months!) 1.4.2 (Bugfix _09) and Java 1.5.0 (Bufix _09).
Is there any reason that SuSE contains outaged bug fixed and that SuSE customers
have to do additional, costly downloads to obtain the latest bug fixes?

Comment 1 Bryce Nesbitt 2006-01-21 00:37:02 UTC

SUSE did release a java patch... but whatch out.  On my system it broke Tomcat, and IntelliJ Java IDE.

Comment 2 Sonja Krause-Harder 2006-01-23 14:53:24 UTC

We actually try to provide the latest java versions on each release, but sometimes don't include them when they come too late in the beta stage.

For release SUSE Linux versions we only provide updates if they fix security issues.