Bug#345013: kaffe: buggy java.util.zip implementation

[Filip Van Raemdonck]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 02:32:49PM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> 
> Trying the war from inside
> http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/alfresco/alfresco-war-1.1.1.zip (or any
> other sf mirror of that file) in a sarge tomcat4+kaffe deployment, fails
> with an IOException for one of the jar files inside.
...
> Googling around for the exception message learns that the kaffe zip classes
> are known to be buggy, and supposedly using those from classpath-common
> might help.

FWIW, I've rebuilt testing/unstable kaffe for sarge and it happens with
that one, too.


Regards,

Filip

PS. I can upload my kaffe build to backports.org, if you wish, so it is
publicly available for others. At least it fixes the security manager
issue with tomcat among other things.

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