Andrew McGlashan: > Vu Ngoc VU wrote: >> >> As sun-java5-jre doesn't exist on Squeeze, there is no clue. >> But if you want to install some package that have the same name on >> both distros, you can use option -t with apt-get. > > If sun-java5 continues to be important, then why not have a port in > squeeze too?
Probably because it isn't supported upstream anymore: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/ | Java SE 5.0 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition | period. The EOL transition period began April 8th, 2007 and will | complete October 8th, 2009, when Java SE 5.0 will have reached its End | of Service Life (EOSL). J. -- If politics is the blind leading the blind, entertainment is the fucked- up leading the hypnotised. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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