Hi, Am Mittwoch, dem 02.03.2022 um 16:43 +0200 schrieb Per Lundberg:
[...] > (Speaking about tomcat10, I noted the package in experimental is really > old - doesn't seem to have been updated for a few years. Do you know if > anyone is working on updating the package to e.g. Tomcat 10.0.17 or will > it perhaps happen later in the Bookworm release cycle?) I intend to update it in the near future. I believe the initial goal was to make it co-installable with Tomcat 9. Currently there are still some file conflicts which have to be resolved before we can upload Tomcat 10 to unstable. > > Also, I wonder if it wouldn't even make sense to remove openjdk-8-jdk > altogether from unstable at this point. The fact that it's present there > is actually a bit confusing, since it gives the (completely false) > impression that JDK 8 will be supported in future versions of Debian. If > you agree, I can file a separate removal bug on that package. (I'm not > currently a Debian maintainer myself, so I cannot help out more than > that. ;) We still need OpenJDK 8 to bootstrap Kotlin. Please don't ask for its removal. It would be great if we could use OpenJDK 11 instead but we are not there yet. > > As for the actual libeclipse-jdt-core-java package, is there any > particular reason for going with the 4.21 version in Debian unstable & > bookworm? I am just curious. It feels like a somewhat odd decision to go > with a more recent version than the 4.20 version which Apache bundles in > their distribution. But perhaps there are other Debian packages which > can find use of the newer package, or has it perhaps just been done to > be able to ship the "latest and greatest" version of this package with > Bookworm? (I mean: to not ship something which is "old" already at the > time of release.) I guess there was no particular reason other than upgrading to the latest available version back then. I have not investigated yet if another Debian package requires 4.21 specifically but since we don't really support Java 8 anymore I think we can just move forward. Tomcat 9 will be gone next year and since we rather have to invest time into fixing OpenJDK 17 bugs than making packages Java 8 compatible, I would say let's keep it as is. Regards, Markus
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