Re: openjdk-11, please?
On 18/10/2018 17:20, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Hello Harri,
>
> Am 18.10.18 um 07:46 schrieb Harald Dunkel:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> google told me
>>
>> No results found for site:lists.debian.org "openjdk-11" backport
>>
>> so I wonder if such a backport could be added? Due to Oracle's license
>> change I would like to avoid the proprietary package on my Debian 9
>> hosts.
>
>
> Why do you need a backport of OpenJDK 11 for Stretch? OpenJDK 8 is fully
> supported and works perfectly. We haven't even switched to OpenJDK 11 as
> the default-jre in Sid. OpenJDK 11 would break a lot of packages at
> runtime and even more packages would fail to build from source. I don't
> think it would be really useful for most of our stable users and if you
> are interested in bleeding edge Java software then you are better served
> by using testing or sid.
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.
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