Re: Openjdk-8 in Debian/backports?
On 12/31/2014 04:23 PM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 31/12/2014 11:19, Thomas Zlika a écrit :
>
>> Thanks for the tip and the pre-built binaries.
>> However, the version is sid is a beta release (I think 8u40 will not be released
>> before spring) so I would prefer a more stable version.
>> Btw, I don't understand why sid has a so "cutting edge" version.
>> As I understand the purpose for the different Debian repositories, this would better fit
>> in the experimental repo.
>
> Not sure, but I believe Matthias packaged a more recent build to get a
> better compatibility on the architectures supported by Debian. The
> updates will probably follow the Oracle releases in the future.
Thomas, if you have the resources, then you can surely pack another openjdk-8
version. Maybe you don't care about AArch64 and ppc64le, but building for these
architectures some backports are required. Feel free to address these. Unstable
is perfectly fine for a package like openjdk-8, which is not released with jessie.
And if you have time to kill, there are still a lot of outstanding issues to
build the archive with java8 ...
Matthias
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