On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:44 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > Hi folks, > > A few of us have been discussing the removal of sun-java6. It is > non-free, orphaned, buggy (including security bugs), and can > generally > be replaced by openjdk. There are only three reverse depends left > and > none of them directly depend on sun-java6 but instead dep on > java6-runtime. > > There has also been some similar discussions in Ubuntu with some > users > reporting that some web sites and packages don't work with openjdk but > I > have not seen a lot of concrete proof. > > My personal feeling is that we either need to remove it or fix it up. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Barry deFreese
In my opinion, I would opt to keep sun-java6 in the archives for a while longer. There are places where the openjdk just doesn't cut it when you are programing in Java (paint3D wasn't implemented last I heard, ans such like that). Not too much of an argument, just hoping to share that angle (if it hasn't been shared already) -- Luke Cycon <lcy...@gmail.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
