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Re: Reintroducing openjdk-8 for Bullseye?



On Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:11:12 PM PDT Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Graham Inggs:

> > As of nvidia-cuda-toolkit 10.1.243, upstream stopped shipping the

> > bundle JRE, and expect users to download it directly from Oracle. We

> > are considering our options, and one which is very attractive for us

> > is for openjdk-8 to be reintroduced for Bullseye, but the question is

> > who gets to maintain it?

>

> Why did they stop providing the bundled JDK? Do the AdoptOpenJDK

> builds work? If not, then why would a Debian build of openjdk-8 be

> any different?

 

JDK 8 is already EOL, current JDK LTS release is 11. I would advice against

putting an EOLed product into a not yet released Bullseye

 

Java has pretty good backwards compatibility so code that works on JDK 8 should work on JDK 11

 

Just my 2 cents.

 

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