Potential Server Seed impact for 14.04: removal of OpenJDK/Tomcat7 from Ubuntu main

[James Page]

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Hi Folks

On 21/01/14 18:16, James Page wrote:
> What do people think to this plan?  Are OpenJDK and Tomcat7
> important packages for Ubuntu users? Will not having a well
> supported OpenJDK implementation in Ubuntu main discourage people
> from using Ubuntu to host their Java based applications?  Or do
> users still just use the Oracle Java downloads instead and ignore
> what Ubuntu provides?
> 
> Let me know what you think...

Thanks to everyone who responded to this post both on and off list; as
I expected, quite a few users depend on a well supported OpenJDK in
Ubuntu in preference to using binary downloads from Oracle.

Ubuntu 14.04 will ship with both OpenJDK 7 and Tomcat 7 in Ubuntu main.

EOM

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James Page
Ubuntu and Debian Developer
james.page at ubuntu.com
jamespage at debian.org
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