Hi, Am 20.07.2018 um 21:43 schrieb Matthias Klose: > Hi, > > OpenJDK now is feature complete, and the package in unstable should migrate to > testing soonish. I didn't do any test rebuilds with 11 yet, but I think now > it's time to start doing these. Chris West did these for 10, but doesn't seem > to be active at the moment. Is there anybody volunteering to do test rebuilds > with 11, or should we just change the default and then start fixing issues? I think the sooner we make OpenJDK 11 the default the better. This makes it more likely that we detect runtime issues before the freeze. I suppose there will be some FTBFS fallout again but I expect it to be in the same range when we switched from 9 to 10. I'm also in favor of keeping OpenJDK 8 in Buster around as a fallback solution and a means to build multiple packages from source which will not be ready in time. One example is Netbeans 9 that requires OpenJDK 8 at build time but supports Java 9 and above at runtime. There are other packages where upstream continues to use Java 8 and I'm a bit tired to work around it. So in my opinion it makes sense to keep OpenJDK 8 in Buster for development and building packages as long as we make it clear that it is not supported at runtime and security-wise. You could just package the latest version right before we go into deep freeze and that's it. Markus
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