[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 09:58:22 CEST 2012


On 29 March 2012 22:59, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> perhaps we can obsolete it with one of those nonfree getters? (if security
>> bug)
>>
>> or, maybe a package that gives an README.urpmi ...
>>
>> IMHO: i think obsoleting it is fine, but with a README.urpmi that says
>> notifies
>> that it's been obsoleted.
>
>
> Yes that seems the best solution to me

We can do like RH & Ubuntu, provides an empty package that explain sun doesn't
enable us anymore to distribute it and that they've to install (& update) it
manually from sun.com


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