On 08/23/2009 09:19 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
> Pjotr,
>
> This leaves you with:
> a) using the workaround provided and installing sun-java6 packages from
> karmic. You can also install the software directly from Sun. Although a poor
> choice for Ubuntu in general, it gets you as a 'simple user' with the update.
> b) figuring out how to build a package yourself with a new version number and
> submit it to REVU (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment#Packaging),
> test them yourself and the submit them here for upload
> c) helping to coordinate the ubuntu-java team to create the packages for you,
> test them and submit for upload.
> d) asking someone who does know how to do this to prepare packages (Vistaus
> claims it'll take 5 minutes, perhaps that's a good start. Alternatively, try
> to get people in MOTU or MOTU-SWAT involved). You can then test those
> packages and have the packager submit them here for upload
> e) taking it up again on the ubuntu-motu mailing list (perhaps with a
> different subject and asking you be kept in the CC) and try to get others to
> help get the package in shape
>
> Again, this is a community supported package; use the community
> resources that are available to you (of which there are many). Ubuntu
> provides the packages in universe and multiverse as a convenience to its
> users, but needs the community to care for them. People using Ubuntu are
> not required to use the software in universe and multiverse. This is not
> new; this is not a public relations disaster; this is simply how Ubuntu
> is structured. Other teams manage to coordinate security updates for
> packages that are community supported (ClamAV and Seamonkey spring to
> mind), why can't you, the java community?
>
If i wasnt afraid of Java packages i would be glad to do it.
I'm assuming the scripts are like flash script instead of a
"real" package.(real == lack of a better word)
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