On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:29:41 -0300, Dr Beco wrote:
3) If there is an easy way of creating a ".deb" package from the .tgz on the original site, that would also be nice. Something like the google-earth package, I believe. There are many solutions, so please, just take a kind look into this!
That's been taken care of last February: http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2012/02/29/java_package_replacement_of_sun_java6You will have to update yourself once a new binary comes out. It works against java6 and java7