CentOS - Jan 2012 - bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

Readers,

Would someone advise whether the distribution of an obsolete version
of java should be reported as a bug;
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=827

On 10 January 2012 13:04, e-letter <inpost at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Readers,
>
> Would someone advise whether the distribution of an obsolete version
> of java should be reported as a bug;
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=827
Why is this a bug? The bug comments mention that the latest CentOS 6
has 1.10.4 which is supported by the Icedtea people. I quote from the
comments:

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The newest version of IcedTea in CentOS6 (6.2) is 1.10.4:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6.2/os/i386/Packages/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.41.1.10.4.el6.i686.rpm
---8<------------------------------------

Thus ypgrade your CentOS to the latest point release as a minimum as
suggested in the issue you raised. Again from the issue raised, the
following link is pretty enlightening:

http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-6e2c3746ec45ac3142917466760321e868f43c0e

e-letter wrote:
> Readers,
>
> Would someone advise whether the distribution of an obsolete version
> of java should be reported as a bug;
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=827
One *could* argue that Java is a bug, being a) so error-prone, b) so
vulnerable to attack, and c) so huge and slow, and shouldn't be
allowed....

        mark "java; why did it have to be java?"