Bug#863247: java-package: ARM support bitrotted

Emmanuel Bourg ebourg at apache.org
Tue Dec 5 14:59:14 UTC 2017


Hi Ian,

Thank you for the patch. The regular expression needs to be adjusted to
keep working with earlier Java 8 and Java 7 ARM binaries (without the
32/64 suffix). Also the j2se_arch check disabling the browser plugin
probably has to be updated.

For the record here are the names of the JDK ARM binaries since they
first appeared with Java 7:

 Java 7:
  * ARM Soft Float since Java 7u6:
    - jdk-7u6-linux-arm-sfp.tar.gz
    - jdk-7u10-linux-arm-sfp.tar.gz
    - jdk-7u21-linux-arm-sfp.tar.gz
  * ARM Hard Float since Java 7u40:
    - jdk-7u40-linux-arm-vfp-hflt.tar.gz
    - jdk-7u40-linux-arm-vfp-sflt.tar.gz
    - jdk-7u75-linux-arm-vfp-hflt.tar.gz
    - jdk-7u75-linux-arm-vfp-sflt.tar.gz

 Java 8:
  * ARM Hard Float only, started with the GA release:
    - jdk-8-linux-arm-vfp-hflt.tar.gz
  * ARM 64 builds since Java 8u71:
    - jdk-8u71-linux-arm32-vfp-hflt.tar.gz
    - jdk-8u71-linux-arm64-vfp-hflt.tar.gz

 Java 9 & 10:
  * No ARM binaries yet

Emmanuel Bourg



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