Am 29.01.19 um 14:19 schrieb Per Lundberg: > Hi Markus, > > On 1/29/19 1:32 PM, Markus Koschany wrote: >> >>> I am sorry but OpenJDK 8 will not be supported at runtime in >>> Buster. > Another question: if this is the case, should the openjdk-8-jdk package > (and friends) be removed altogether in sid? I looked briefly but > couldn't find any bugs mentioning this.
This is Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/920037 We usually ship only with one JDK per release because of security support. OpenJDK 8 will be EOL before the end of the Debian 10 release cycle. We still have a couple of packages that will not compile with OpenJDK 11 hence we also thought about shipping OpenJDK 8 for building those packages but declaring it as unsupported at runtime. However, as this bug report shows, people tend to assume that OpenJDK 8 is supported as well. So we either end up without OpenJDK 8 in Buster at all and with less packages, that are only there to build other packages, or we declare OpenJDK 8 as unsupported at runtime in our release notes which carries the risk of nobody reading them.
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