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ubuntu-restricted-extras package

java should not be included in ubuntu-restricted-extras

Bug #337832 reported by Rick Spencer
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubuntu-restricted-extras (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubuntu-restricted-extras

Since there is now a free as in speech version of java available in main, users should not install Sun Java unless they really really mean to. They should be encouraged to install open jdk instead. Currently, restricted-extras installs Sun java, so users will most likely end up with the non-free version of java instead of the free version.

I propose that we remove java from restricted-extras. This will have the added benefit of simplifying and speeding up the install time for the other restricted extras for which there is not a suitable free alternative.

Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3)
Changed in ubuntu-restricted-extras:
assignee: nobody → pitti
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in ubuntu-restricted-extras:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I just talked to Matthias. He says that our icedtea6-plugin is slightly older than the current sun-java6 (by about half a yera), so there might be applets which don't work yet with the free plugin. However, that by itself shouldn't be a sufficient reason for including this into u-r-extras.

So I'd rather make this depending on what happens if you visit a page with a java applet and don't have any JDK installed.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I just tried that, and I get a nice dialog offering me several java plugins, with icedtea being on top, and sun-java included as well. So it makes total sense to drop this from u-r-e.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-restricted-extras - 29

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ubuntu-restricted-extras (29) jaunty; urgency=low

  * {x,}ubuntu-restricted-extras-i386: Drop sun-java6-plugin; icedtea6-plugin
    should usually work well enough, and Firefox' automatic plugin installer
    does a fine job nowadays. (LP: #337832)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:52:43 +0100

Changed in ubuntu-restricted-extras:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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