Originally Posted by
siling
Its do-able to get Java going on debian, but there is no way I'm going to. Too much work, possible security problems, and it could play havok with the few programs that I have already installed using java.
Canonical would have removed Sun Java for several reasons- political, philosophical and practical.
Politically, sun/orcale is almost persona non grata in the open soruce world. Canoncial would rather have open soruce openJDK rather than the sun/oracle binaries (even though canoncial has more than its share of 'open core' projects). Practical, canonical would rather use packages the debian users have already tested, rather than testing Sun Java. Canonical has lost a lot of testers over the last year to year and a half, and is spending most fo the testing time trying to make the stupidly that is known as 'unity' a bit better (but not to 'fix' it, no, canonical knows bettter than you the user what is needed). So simplifying the testing process is very attractive to canonical now.