On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:55:49AM CEST, Sven Hoexter <s...@timegate.de> said: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 05:49:19PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This package makes a .deb from oracle .tar.gz It does not package java > > 9 nor java 10. Is there a problem with those versions ? Is the > > packaged abandonned, and in this case is there anotehr method to uses > > oracle JRE on debian ? > > I'm currently maintaining my own fork because I did not get around > to properly hijack the package. I had at some point contact with one > of the prior maintainers but we could not get around merging my Java 9 > changes at that point. > > So for now my fork is here: > https://git.sven.stormbind.net/?p=sven/java-package.git;a=summary > > Usage instruction if you do not want to build a Debian package out > of it: > https://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/deb_java-package-oracle-jdk9/ > > > It's not completely polished but I'm reluctant to invest more time > because I assume we all move on to OpenJDK in some form in Januar 2019. > > Context: > As far as I know Oracle JRE/JDK builds will be only available for paying > customers on a contract by September 2018 for Java 11 and January 2019 > for Java 8. At that point everyone else will propably migrate to some form > of OpenJDK. If it's the one shipped by your distro or 3rd parties like > Azul needs to be determined on a case by case basis I guess. > There will still be reference binary OpenJDK builds published on > jdk.java.net but I'm not sure if it's worth to provide support for them > in java-package. > > > Cheers, > Sven
Thanks. Alas I have some mangement console for (surprise ?) oracle SAN storage which only work with oracle Java. I'll keep an working one for this... -- Erwan
