[arch-general] shouldn't the java-sun package be named java-oracle?

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Auguste Pop <auguste at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> the binaray version of java has been in repo with the name jre and jdk
> for a long time. i noticed that a split package of java-sun is now in
> the community repo.
>
> i don't know if java-sun is newly created or has been there also for a
> long time. anyway, the -sun suffix is not appropriate as the upstream
> java is branded oracle now.
>
> i have been using openjdk since the beginning. so, basically, i
> pointed this out just for curiosity's sake.
>
> best regards,
>

it was always java-sun, the website was just updated to show pkgbase names
rather then the package names so that's why you noticed

I guess now is a good time as any to update the name :)
java-sun has now been renamed to java-oracle

Cheers!