Further to various discussions on IRC earlier, I've found this very helpful post: https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2014/04/msg00003.html
Read the post for details and whether you decide it's worth it, as it's considered beta by the author, however I've been using it for a few hours and my use-case (headless) has encountered no issues at all. Best of all, there's a repo; http://87.98.165.193/debian/repo/ Hope that saves people some bother. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenJDK, which is subscribed to openjdk-8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1341628 Title: [needs-packaging]openjdk-8 in 14.04 Status in openjdk-8 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: openjdk-8 is now available in Utopic: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/+bug/1297065 According to the comments in that bug, a separate bug needs to be reported for backporting. I am especially interested in a package for 14.04, hence raising this specific bug. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/+bug/1341628/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : openjdk@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp