new java?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:09:24AM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> I noticed on dapper-changes that there is a sun-java package that has
> just arrived. If that is what I think it is, it changes the way that
> people can install java on Dapper.

That's correct, though it's not quite finished being integrated yet.  It
should have an entry in the Add/Remove programs dialog for the benefit of
desktop users (though we should document the command-line approach for
server admins as well).

Michael, Matthias, please coordinate to get this into gnome-app-install
ASAP.

> Was anyone considering notifying the documentation team about that? It
> is after all 3 months past feature freeze, 1 month past documentation
> freeze, and 2 days before documentation translation freeze.

What allowed us to do this was a licensing change in the software, which was
not made public by Sun until quite recently.  Note that feature freeze does
not in general apply to adding new packages to multiverse, and this change
did not invalidate the existing documentation.

> I'm willing to change our desktop guide really fast, but I'd like to
> know what this package does, and how it affects the following two bits
> of documentation, both in System/Help/System Documentation/Ubuntu
> Desktop Guide:
> 
> 1. Common Tasks/Internet/3.4.4.3
> 2. Common Tasks/Programming/3.8.2
> 
> If someone could let me know, I'd appreciate it.

Michael and Matthias can assist with this; if you have time, a documentation
update would be appropriate.  If there isn't time, that's OK, and we can
still update the online documentation at a later date.

-- 
 - mdz