[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

nicolas vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Fri Mar 30 10:35:21 CEST 2012


On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:

> On 30 March 2012 10:06, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> > Why should we manage this case differently from other similar situations ?
> > That's not the first time we remove something from the distribution, because
> > it is not supported anymore usually, and has known available
> > vulnerabilities.
> 
> Actually, _YOU_ want us to "manage this case differently from other similar
> situations".
> In case you didn't see, other packages are obsoleted by task-obsolete (if
> no better package)

So I think we should obsolete sun-java in task-obsolete, and add it to
release notes. Then people who want to remove unsupported packages can
install task-obsolete.



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