Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> writes: > >> the latest icedtea-ified JDK has not yet been released, but this doesn’t >> mean we can’t package it. >> >> Attached is a patch to add “icedtea-8” (because it provides the JDK for >> Java version 1.8). It uses the upstream tarball for version 3.0.0pre09, >> which I had to mirror on my own server because the Guile HTTP client >> doesn’t like an invalid header in the response from >> http://icedtea.classpath.org. > > On IRC there was the idea to provide “url-fetch/wget” which would be > less strict compared to the default Guile HTTP client.
We could do that, but I would prefer fixing and/or monkey-patching the date header check in Guile. In this case, if the problem is date header validation, it seems that we could monkey-patch the ‘parse-rfc-822-date’ procedure of (web http) to do the right thing. Would you like to give it a try? >> The version is declared as “2.99.99-pre09” so that version “3.0.0” (when >> it is finally released) will be considered an update. > > Does it make sense to push this patch to master? Or should we wait for > an official release? Java 1.8 is already pretty old and it seems like > the pre-release is enough to build OpenJDK 8. I’d rather wait for an official release, but maybe there’s a good reason to use the pre-release? Thanks, Ludo’.
