On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > On 30 March 2012 10:06, Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We can do like RH& Ubuntu, provides an empty package that explain sun > >> doesn't enable us anymore to distribute it and that they've to install (& > >> update) > >> it manually from sun.com > > > > Why should we manage this case differently from other similar situations ? > > That's not the first time we remove something from the distribution, because > > it is not supported anymore usually, and has known available > > vulnerabilities. > > Actually, _YOU_ want us to "manage this case differently from other similar > situations". > In case you didn't see, other packages are obsoleted by task-obsolete (if > no better package)
So I think we should obsolete sun-java in task-obsolete, and add it to release notes. Then people who want to remove unsupported packages can install task-obsolete.
