[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op donderdag 29 maart 2012 21:08:22 schreef David Walser:
> Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at ...> writes:
> > If I want to keep a proprietary JRE on my computers, because I trust it
> > more to run crap proprietary applications (also called
> > corporate-compliants), than marvelous free-licensed environment they
> > have never been tested with, that is my choice, not yours.
> 
> If they really want to keep Sun Java, shouldn't they just download the
> installer from Sun and install it themselves, rather than using some
> obsolete Mageia 1 package of it?


well, iinm the version that the people have, will still have the correct 
license and we are able to distribute it fine.

i would argue that if security bugs we could remove it, but i'm not too sure 
on this point... i mean, can we really remove it from them? otoh, people 
wanting to have the proprietary ones, likely know what they are doing...

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.

(unless someone wants to have and maintain a nonfree getter application that 
fetches the upstream releases)

we really shouldn't keep stuff we can't maintain...