[Openjdk] [Bug 1341628] Re: [needs-packaging]openjdk-8 in 14.04

2014-07-14 Thread Philipp Wendler
During the life time of 14.04, we expect many Java applications to switch to and rely on Java 8 (given the nice programming benefits this offers, the switch probably happens faster than for e.g. Java 7). We are considering making this change for our own open-source Java application, too. Thus

[Openjdk] [Bug 1297065] Re: [needs-packaging]openjdk-8 in ubuntu

2014-03-28 Thread Philipp Wendler
It would be great if it could land at least in Trusty, so that we don't have a LTS version where the only available Java version is quite outdated. I expect many Java programs to require Java 8 some time while Trusty is still supported. In fact, I am also a Java developer, and we will surely