Re: openjdk-8 removed from Buster?
Le 24/04/2019 à 10:13, Jonathan Dowland a écrit :
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> So this was a deliberate decision? Can you point me at any public
> discussion log? #915620 makes it look like it was a mistake.
The removal from testing was intended (we already shipped only one JDK
in the last two releases), but the removal from unstable was a mistake.
We'll need OpenJDK 8 to bootstrap SBT (and probably Kotlin too) after
the Buster release.
> Except: have you any confidence that all the Java applications in Debian
> actually work properly with OpenJDK 11?
Yes, we've worked hard on the transition to Java 11, fixing more than
500 issues over a year. Incompatible packages have been either upgraded,
fixed or removed. The notable exception right now is netbeans (#925509).
> Red Hat still have hard dependencies on Java 8
> for much of their stuff, including Maven.
Maven 3.6 works very well with OpenJDK 11. It currently builds more than
550 packages flawlessly in Buster.
Emmanuel Bourg
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