As the author of this "crap", I am taking the opportunity to detail this position.
If you are interested in such issues, you are probably aware that Oracle has made the openjdk-7 the base target development of the JVM. Proprietary versions (sun-java7 is you will) are based on the free version.
This is the opposite of the current version (6).
If we do not encourage users to switch to the Openjdk, bugs won't be fixed in the 6 or 7 for a while.
It just seems to me like reinvention of the wheel for its own sake. Why not just make it as easy on the user as possible by providing very easy installs for the most well-developed software, and for more experienced users, continue providing these open-source efforts?
Seems like the same thought process at work that brought us cruft like the Unity UI in 11.04, then forced it on users as default, instead of just offering it as a new, less-stable alternative.
We are not reinventing anything. We are dropping a package which won't be supported anymore.
More over, JDK/JRE 7 is already in the Debian archive and available.
If you are interested in such issues, you are probably aware that Oracle has made the openjdk-7 the base target development of the JVM. Proprietary versions (sun-java7 is you will) are based on the free version. This is the opposite of the current version (6).
If we do not encourage users to switch to the Openjdk, bugs won't be fixed in the 6 or 7 for a while.