I can definitely wait (our application won’t even run on Java >= 8 yet). I just wanted to make sure the bug was being tracked. Thanks!
> On Apr 30, 2018, at 3:15 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > > Le 29/04/2018 à 19:07, Alan Orth a écrit : >> Ubuntu imported tomcat8/8.5.31 just before the 18.04 release and Tomcat will >> not run with OpenJDK 8 there either. Will you be waiting for a new Tomcat >> release before re-compiling tomcat8 to work with OpenJDK 8, or can we >> schedule something sooner? > > Tomcat 8.5.31 hasn't been released yet, but should be by the end of the > week if the ongoing vote passes upstream. I'll take this opportunity to > upload a fixed tomcat8 package. The actual fix is in the ant package and > will be uploaded before. > > The Java ecosystem in Ubuntu 18.04 isn't going to be very stable until > the end of the year and the final switch to Java 11. Canonical is > working hard to make the transition as smooth as possible, but if you > aren't in a hurry to upgrade I think it's safer to wait a bit. > > Emmanuel Bourg > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to 895866-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org.