[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 21:23, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:

> 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...
>

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Critical-Java-hole-being-exploited-on-a-large-scale-Update-1485681.html

If people want it they should install the fixed version that we are not
allowed to distribute

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


> (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...
>
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