Comment 24 for bug 1512760

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In , Gnu-andrew (gnu-andrew) wrote :

(In reply to James Le Cuirot from comment #1)
> (In reply to Mike Nerone from comment #0)
> > Another user there reports that
> > OpenJDK-1.8 resolves the problem, but we don't have dev-java/icedtea:8 in
> > the java overlay at this time.
>
> Actually we do but it's called icedtea-3 because upstream wants us to use
> their versioning. It's a prerelease though and the current ebuild is
> outdated. It probably won't fetch properly now.
>
> If you hear of any other workarounds, please let us know.

It's slotted as 8 though, so icedtea:8 works. I emerged it as that just today.

The ebuild has been updated to pre06 which uses 8u60-b24. Testing is welcomed so we can make sure the final release is as good as possible.