This was not handled well at all. I encountered exactly the problem described in this bug report. I took the latest updates and lost the java plugin that my one critical app depended on. Now I can no longer run my critical app (Netilla) and am effectively dead in the water until I can figure out the workaround by browsing around the net. BTW, openjdk may be the future of java, but it's not the present. There are many applications which fail with openjdk.
The right thing to do: 1) Warn the user, in a very in-your-face way, that you are about to downgrade your capabilities if you accept this update. 2) Explain specifically what the choices are. 3) Offer to install replacement packages (e.g. openjdk) if the downgrade path is taken. 4) Give the user an easy way to accept other updates but ignore this one, now and in the future. If this had been done, it would have taken me no time at all to keep my working machine and accept the risks involved with whatever security issues are inherent in the previously working version of java. Part of the reason I use linux is that encounter maybe a couple orders of magnitude less security problems out on the net than those using windows. Also, I don't visit those sites which are likely to cause problems in the first place. And additionally, I take advantage of plugins like noscript which further limit my vulnerabilities. It would have been a no-brainer to keep my working setup as opposed to walking into the mess I'm currently in. And finally, it would be wonderful to have some kind of checkpoint capability which would allow me to accept an update, try it, and if necessary reject it and revert to my previous configuration. This is not the first time I have accepted an update only to find that it has broken a working configuration, with no way that I can figure out to back out of it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906388 Title: updates should not remove software from computers without installing an equivalent replacement To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/906388/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
