Downgrade is the new upgrade

Posted Dec 22, 2011 7:27 UTC (Thu) by jrw (subscriber, #69959)
In reply to: Downgrade is the new upgrade by dlang
Parent article: Ubuntu disabling the Sun Java JDK browser plugin

I'm not unhappy with Canonical for no longer hosting these packages. That frustration should be properly directed at Oracle.

As has been pointed out elsewhere, there are packaging techniques which allow for dynamically loading third-party hosted software when the outer package is installed. That may be the only remaining alternative if there's any interest in keeping these packages alive. In my case, I can download and install them manually, so that would only be a small convenience to me.