[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

Fri Mar 30 10:51:34 CEST 2012

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
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+> 2012/3/30 nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org>:
+> > 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.
+> 
+> Do all average users know about task-obsolete (I did not, never needed
+> it) ? You can't use what you don't know about and what has not been
+> documented in userland. Except you want to narrow down the target
+> group for Mageia to people with technical knowledge and interest.
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+It can be added to the release notes.
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