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@Jamie Strandboge:
I understand your point, but where does that leave me, a simple end user with no packaging skills at all? And more than half a million like me? Probably even millions, if you count out the distortion from the popcon statistics?
This means that probably the vast majority of Ubuntu desktop users is now vulnerable because of unpatched JRE packages. Because that's how popular JRE is. This is not just some package, that's the entire point.
No matter what the underlying philosophy is concerning JRE, this is an unacceptable situation and could cause major reputation damage to Ubuntu.
Imagine what this would do to Ubuntu's public safety image, if it became widely known. A public relations disaster that no spin doctor would be able to remedy.