Ubuntu 9.04 and the latest official Java JRE/JDK

[NoOp]

On 07/10/2009 05:47 AM, Mario Guenterberg wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:38:01PM +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> In 8.10 and 9.04, Ubuntu uses as the default, the crappy OpenJDK.
>> With crappy I mean it doesn't display well/correctly the Java
>> applets in Firefox.
>> 
>> 
>> It also provides the official SUN Java JRE/JDK but with a note:
>> 
>> "Canonical does not provide updates for sun-java6-jre. Some updates
>> may be provided by the Ubuntu community".
>> 
>> 
>> This has as a result, either to stay with an outdated version of
>> JRE with security holes, which is NOT good, or force the users
>> install and configure the latest Java JREs/JDKs manually, without
>> being able to uninstall OpenJDK or the older SUN Java JRE/JDK from
>> Synaptic, due to dependencies.
>> 
>> 
>> The simple solution to this, is Ubuntu to also provide the latest
>> version of SUN Java JRE/JDK. Why don't they do this?
> 
> You can use java-package to build your own sun-jre/sun-jdk deb 
> package from the original downloads from sun. In cooperation with
> alternatives it is no problem to work with this and hold it up to
> date.
> 
> Greetings Mario
> 
> 

Multiverse:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/s/sun-java6/
for the debs if you do not wish to wait for the maintainers to release
from proprosed.

That said, you may find these of interest:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/360414
[[Hardy] Sun Java JRE 6 badly needs security updates]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/382918
[sun-java6 update to 6u14]
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6