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Re: openjdk-8 removed from Buster?



On 24/04/2019 10.56, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:

> 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).

The other notable exception is building apps for Android, since the
versions of Android Gradle plugin you can use due to Gradle 4.4 are
quite old (and the version included in Debian is ancient).

I'm happy for now that at least Ubuntu decided to keep OpenJDK 8 in its
repository.


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