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

Michael Koch konqueror at gmx.de
Wed Dec 28 15:48:22 UTC 2005


On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 03:15:23PM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> 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.

I doubt this is a goos idea as kaffe in testing/unstable is severely
broken. We should at least wait for the next release of kaffe. This
"should" fix most of the issues. Uploading kaffe in current state will
only give bad press.

BTW: I plan to maintain some backports of Java stuff from unstable on
backports.org including kaffe, ant, tomcat5, eclipse, etc.


Cheers,
Michael
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