Comment 3 for bug 1820086

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?