Is it time to remove sun-java6?

[Barry deFreese <bdefreese@debian.org>]

Hi folks,

A few of us have been discussing the removal of sun-java6.  It is 
non-free, orphaned, buggy (including security bugs), and can generally 
be replaced by openjdk.  There are only three reverse depends left and 
none of them directly depend on sun-java6 but instead dep on java6-runtime.

There has also been some similar discussions in Ubuntu with some users 
reporting that some web sites and packages don't work with openjdk but I 
have not seen a lot of concrete proof.

My personal feeling is that we either need to remove it or fix it up.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Barry deFreese