On 2/4/19 10:07 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > What is the specific use case for this, is there some package which > needs 8 and can't be fixed in time for 11?
Yes, it was stated in this thread earlier that such packages do exist. Emmanuel/others, is this the correct list of packages which can only be built w/ openjdk-8 or am I missing something out? If so, it doesn't seem like a huge list and making all of these work on openjdk-11 "could" be doable/the release could possibly live without them. (well, ideally not of course) $ grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends openjdk-8 -sPackage /var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources Package: virtualbox Package: icedtea-web Package: jzmq Package: leiningen-clojure Package: libbluray Package: lombok Package: openjdk-8 Package: openjdk-8-jre-dcevm Package: openjdk-8 Package: openjfx Package: uwsgi Personally, I still rely on openjdk-8 for my work (because of customer environments still using it for at least 3-5 more years), but I can live with getting it from an unofficial repository. It's more important to provide a smooth user experience for the majority of people, who are perhaps not _developers_ of Java-based software but more _users_ of the same. Best regards, -- Per __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.
