[Bug 1820086] Re: backport of icedtea-web for OpenJDK 11 to bionic and cosmic

[Andreas Nagel]

Hello,

I am not sure, what I am seeing here. Maybe someone can help me.
The description mentions backporting of icedtea-web 1.7.2 but the two comments from Lukasz above "icedtea-web/1.8-0ubuntu8~18.04" point to icedtea-web 1.8.

I would very much welcome a backport of icedtea-web (more precise:
icedtea-netx) 1.8 into Bionic, as the current icedtea-
netx_1.6.2-3.1ubuntu3 does not work with my companys software. It
crashes monumentally at startup.

I just tested the binary zip from http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download
/icedtea-web-binaries/1.8/linux/ . This really works.

I followed the "EnableProposed" procedure but was only able to get the icedtea-netx-common package. Then the javaws command no longer works:
Error: Could not find or load main class net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.Boot

This may be related to the "empty package" note.
How can I test this / assist?

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Title:
  backport of icedtea-web for OpenJDK 11 to bionic and cosmic

Status in icedtea-web package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in icedtea-web source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in icedtea-web source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  This is a follow-up to LP: #1814133, getting 18.04 LTS and 18.10
  updated to OpenJDK 11.

  IcedTea 1.7.2 should be be backported, keeping two binary packages
  which are not present anymore in 19.04:

   - icedtea-8-plugin: Browsers don't support the plugin API anymore.
   - icedtea-netx-common.

  Both packages should be shipped as empty packages.

  Validation: Make sure that javaws still works after the upgrade.

  NOTE TO SRU MEMBERS: The packages are to be released into bionic-
  security ONLY. This will be done/decided by the security team.

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