Public bug reported: Please add support for OpenJDK 8. I conjecture that this can be done by adding the relevant packages to the postinst script (see links).
1) $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Release: 14.04 2) $ apt-cache policy ca-certificates-java ca-certificates-java: Installed: 20130815ubuntu1 Candidate: 20130815ubuntu1 Version table: *** 20130815ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3-4) Cannot update openjdk-8 due to unmet dependencies. $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jdk-headless openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: openjdk-8-jre-headless : Depends: ca-certificates-java but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ aptitude why-not ca-certificates-java i ca-certificates-java Depends openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7~u3-2.1.1~pre1-1 ) | java6-runtime-headless p A openjdk-8-jre-headless Provides java6-runtime-headless p A openjdk-8-jre-headless Breaks ca-certificates-java (< 20160321~) Links: * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851667 * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775775 * https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-java/trunk/ca-certificates-java/debian/postinst.in?r1=19012&r2=19013 This is the first Ubuntu bug report I have filed. Please excuse any bureaucratic errors I may have made. ** Affects: ca-certificates-java (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1706442 Title: please add support for openjdk-8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates-java/+bug/1706442/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs