Re: Bug#975016: #975016 - OpenJDK 17 support state for Bullseye

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 2/10/22 11:26, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> Am Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 03:59:00PM +0100 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
>> Hi Holger,
>>
>>> and filed against src:debian-security-support, as openjdk-17 seems to be
>>> supported and src:debian-security-support's purpose is to documented what's
>>
>> no, 11 is supported, 17 is just for users to run third-party
>> stuff on (IIUC).
> 
> In Bullseye 11 is the default Java and fully covered by security support.
> 
> 17 can be installed (and it can also take over the typical alternatives),
> but nothing pulls it in via dependencies. But if anyone needs to run an
> application requiring 17, this is the JRE of choice (those are rare at
> this point, but it will change over the life time of Bullseye).
> 
> And yes there have been security updates for 17 already, but it's a best effort
> thing. If someone commits to rebuild the openjdk-17 uploads to unstable
> for bullseye-security (along with proper testing), we can also omit a note
> for src:debian-security-support.

"along with proper testing" means, that we can turn on again the tests during
the build, which requires a heap of new upstream versions for jtreg, jtharness,
testng, groovy, and probably much more.

Matthias