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Sun JDK & Android AOSP

Posted Dec 16, 2011 19:53 UTC (Fri) by mdeslaur (subscriber, #55004)
In reply to: Sun JDK & Android AOSP by jspaleta
Parent article: Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

Debian has already removed it from the archive:

http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/10/25/rem...
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646524

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Posted Dec 16, 2011 20:20 UTC (Fri) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

With that bit of historic information in hand from Oct, the move by Canonical is even less newsworthy really and should have been expected.

Also worth noting the the deb bugreport discussion stresses migration to openjdk instead of trying to support the download packaging hack used by flash plugin package. Seems all the important considerations are all old news.

-jef

Sun JDK & Android AOSP

Posted Dec 17, 2011 6:25 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

For Debian stable/oldstable it seems that it will stay around. Although non-free is not supported by the Debian security team, it sounds like they might issue a DSA stating that there are unfixable security issues and strongly encourage switching to OpenJDK.