Thanks feranick. I posted the following message on the MOTU mailing list: ---------------- Hello,
Hereby I request your attention for the following matter. It concerns Multiverse and not Universe, but the matter is grave enough to bring this to your attention. Sun Java JRE doesn't receive security updates for Hardy, Intrepid and Jaunty. The latest security update is only for Karmic. This is a huge problem. A structural problem as well: this is not the first time that Sun Java JRE security updates aren't ported to current stable Ubuntu versions. OpenJDK still can't replace JRE entirely. There are still some websites that only function well for a visitor, when that visitor has JRE installed. A pity, but that's how it is. And that's why we need security updates for JRE: most desktop users have it installed on their computers. We can't leave them unprotected. All that has to be done for the current JRE security update (1.6.0_15), is to make the Karmic JRE packages available for Hardy, Intrepid and Jaunty. No change necessary. So this can be done very easily and quickly. If you already have installed Sun Java JRE from Multiverse in 8.04, 8.10 or 9.04, then all you have to do is install the Karmic packages and it works fine. I already provided a workaround: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/409559/comments/8 But that's only a workaround. Many people won't know it's available. Therefore we need a regular security update. Plus we need a structural change in the handling of security updates for Sun Java JRE: this is not an incident. Can you make this happen? This is the current bug report on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409559 Greeting, Pjotr. ------------------ I will keep you informed on the handling of this matter by the MOTU's. -- version 1.6.0_15 is available https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409559 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
