Am 18.10.18 um 17:31 schrieb Lee Garrett: [...] > Not wanting to be picky, but you can actually install several openjdk versions > in parallel without switching the default one (the default-jre package depends > on that). > > Also, there might be users that need newer software but aren't interested in > pulling the whole system to bleeding edge. So it's a matter of Harald bringing > up good arguments why openjdk-8 or 9 won't suffice, and someone with upload > rights backporting and maintaining it. I do understand the point of backports. However OpenJDK is not your everyday leaf package, it provides the Java Virtual Machine that makes your Java software compile and run. Why would you need another version in Stretch that does actually the same thing? The reason why we only focus on one OpenJDK version per release cycle is that we don't want to provide security support for two Java Runtime Environments. All packages in Stretch are well tested against OpenJDK 8 but certainly not for OpenJDK 11. Without doubt there will be regressions if you try OpenJDK 11 on them. As a member of the Java team I can rule out that anyone intends to maintain OpenJDK 11 in stretch-backports. But as you have pointed out correctly, everyone can step up and do it.
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