On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > James Page from Canonical just pointed me to a thread [0] on the Ubuntu > Cloud list where the discussion started to remove OpenJDK7/Tomcat from > Ubuntu main. > > He asked me what the impact would be regarding to CloudStack if users would > have to fetch OpenJDK and Tomcat from a 3rd party repo, so I quickly > responded that it would hurt the Ubuntu users running CloudStack. > > For now it looks like OpenJDK and Tomcat will stay in Ubuntu's main > repository, but for me it sparked the discussion again around Java 7. > > We can be pretty sure that distributions will be dropping Java 6 pretty > soon, so want to change the Maven settings to force Java 7 in the master > repository. > > We should also start testing with Tomcat 7 since we can expect Ubuntu 14.04 > (the next LTS) to only have that tomcat version. > > We've been over the Java 7 switch over and over, so I recommend we simply > switch master. > > I'll start a different thread about that later with a ANNOUNCE in it. > > Wido > > [0]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2014-January/037991.html
No disagreement re Tomcat7/JDK7 So forgive my ignorance. But isn't universe available by default? (I am not an Ubuntu-ite - so I understand main to be what Canonical supports and maintains very actively, and universe is what the community and non-Canonical supported packages land. Is that understanding correct? ) If my understanding is correct; users might be using a JDK with security issues (which is its own set of problems) but they'd still have a JDK accessible? --David
