<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java </TITLE> <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Removal%20of%20sun%20java&In-Reply-To=%3CCA%2Bh4nj4qyQL8FtomEtM7P2w%2BCiCYaJQSZZSJ59gbpPYK%2BgtDBg%40mail.gmail.com%3E"> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="013739.html"> <LINK REL="Next" HREF="013679.html"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <H1>[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java</H1> <B>Wolfgang Bornath</B> <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Removal%20of%20sun%20java&In-Reply-To=%3CCA%2Bh4nj4qyQL8FtomEtM7P2w%2BCiCYaJQSZZSJ59gbpPYK%2BgtDBg%40mail.gmail.com%3E" TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java">molch.b at googlemail.com </A><BR> <I>Fri Mar 30 10:35:50 CEST 2012</I> <P><UL> <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="013739.html">[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java </A></li> <LI>Next message: <A HREF="013679.html">[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java </A></li> <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> <a href="date.html#13705">[ date ]</a> <a href="thread.html#13705">[ thread ]</a> <a href="subject.html#13705">[ subject ]</a> <a href="author.html#13705">[ author ]</a> </LI> </UL> <HR> <!--beginarticle--> <PRE>2012/3/30 Thierry Vignaud <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com</A>>: ><i> On 29 March 2012 22:59, Pascal Terjan <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">pterjan at gmail.com</A>> wrote: </I>>>><i> perhaps we can obsolete it with one of those nonfree getters? (if security </I>>>><i> bug) </I>>>><i> </I>>>><i> or, maybe a package that gives an README.urpmi ... </I>>>><i> </I>>>><i> IMHO: i think obsoleting it is fine, but with a README.urpmi that says </I>>>><i> notifies </I>>>><i> that it's been obsoleted. </I>>><i> </I>>><i> </I>>><i> Yes that seems the best solution to me </I>><i> </I>><i> We can do like RH & Ubuntu, provides an empty package that explain sun doesn't </I>><i> enable us anymore to distribute it and that they've to install (& update) it </I>><i> manually from sun.com </I> That's what others and I suggested in the bug report. We are not sysadmins of user's systems. But that's only the academical point of view. Reality is that the main target of Mageia is the average user who will likely not read technical papers or security alert and will probably not know about the security issue at all. Even if he reads something about it in a newspaper he will usually trust Mageia's repos, more so since we keep telling the users that we do QA for all software in the "official" repos. Telling that all over the place implies a responsibility which we can not simply put away with by telling that we are not sysadmins of the user's systems. Supplying a software in our repos does not allow us in cases like this one to simply point at the user and tell him that it is his own fault if he installs the software. We can do that if he installs software from a 3rd party source but not from our own repos. So, just removing the package and leaving the users who already installed it out in the rain is wrong and could even mean bad reputation. That's why I strongly suggest to think beyond the rim of a developer's bowl. -- wobo </PRE> <!--endarticle--> <HR> <P><UL> <!--threads--> <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="013739.html">[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java </A></li> <LI>Next message: <A HREF="013679.html">[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java </A></li> <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> <a href="date.html#13705">[ date ]</a> <a href="thread.html#13705">[ thread ]</a> <a href="subject.html#13705">[ subject ]</a> <a href="author.html#13705">[ author ]</a> </LI> </UL> <hr> <a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev mailing list</a><br> </body></html>