Comment 40 for bug 409559

Pjotr,

This leaves you with:
a) using the workaround provided and installing sun-java6 packages from karmic. You can also install the software directly from Sun. Although a poor choice for Ubuntu in general, it gets you as a 'simple user' with the update.
b) figuring out how to build a package yourself with a new version number and submit it to REVU (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment#Packaging), test them yourself and the submit them here for upload
c) helping to coordinate the ubuntu-java team to create the packages for you, test them and submit for upload.
d) asking someone who does know how to do this to prepare packages (Vistaus claims it'll take 5 minutes, perhaps that's a good start. Alternatively, try to get people in MOTU or MOTU-SWAT involved). You can then test those packages and have the packager submit them here for upload
e) taking it up again on the ubuntu-motu mailing list (perhaps with a different subject and asking you be kept in the CC) and try to get others to help get the package in shape

Again, this is a community supported package; use the community resources that are available to you (of which there are many). Ubuntu provides the packages in universe and multiverse as a convenience to its users, but needs the community to care for them. People using Ubuntu are not required to use the software in universe and multiverse. This is not new; this is not a public relations disaster; this is simply how Ubuntu is structured. Other teams manage to coordinate security updates for packages that are community supported (ClamAV and Seamonkey spring to mind), why can't you, the java community?