is the openjdk-r ppa trustworthy?

Mohamed Hafez mohamed.m.m.hafez at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 17:46:50 UTC 2015


Looks like one of the people you added is listed as the owner of the ppa,
so I'm going to take that as a "yes its trustworthy":) Thanks!

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:

> (adding the people who would know)
> I don't think any Ubuntu backport is official until it shows up in e.g.
> trusty-backports (and it's not there (yet))
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=openjdk-8&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Mohamed Hafez <mohamed.m.m.hafez at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I've seen a ton of blogs saying Java 8 is now available to Ubuntu 12.04 &
>> 14.04 through the ppa openjdk-r. My question is how trustworthy is this
>> ppa? Is it run by people from openjdk or ubuntu or something, or is it
>> just
>> some random source? Looking at https://launchpad.net/~openjdk-r it looks
>> official-ish...
>>
>
>


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