Ubuntu 11.10 VM including OpenJDK Build Image
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Thu Feb 23 10:13:48 UTC 2012
On 02/23/2012 04:09 AM, Wade Chandler wrote:
> As it relates to keeping old binaries, I think older versions would be
> kept. It is exactly what Oracle does with the JRE/JDK. I don't think it
> is criminal. I think if you don't have information about what each
> release address then it is bad; again, I think a security bug severity
> is determined whether the code is used and too who it is used
It would be acceptable iff a big red box popped up at the point
of download to warn people that this was an unsupported and
possibly risky binary. Caveat emptor; fair enough.
Andrew.
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