On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:37:09AM CEST, Thijs Kinkhorst <th...@debian.org> 
said:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> On Thu, August 16, 2012 07:56, echo083 wrote:
> > The sun-java6 in the stable branch is the version 1.6.0_26 is there a
> > plan for any security upgrade ?
> 
> I'm afraid that's not possible. Oracle has changed licensing such that
> it's no longer allowed for Debian to distribute newer versions. There's
> somewhat more detail in http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/15/#javarm
> 
> It is advised to switch to openjdk-6 instead.
> 
> Cheers,
> Thijs

I might do this when every java application I need to use is compatible with 
it...
Meanwhile some do not work...


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