Re: openjdk-8 removed from Buster?
Andreas Schildbach:
> 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.
(I'm responding mostly as an FYI, I think it is OK for Debian to drop
OpenJDK 8.)
It is also not possible to run upstream Gradle binaries older than 4.8
or 4.7. It is a stupid bug on Gradle's part, but nonetheless, those
versions work with OpenJDK 8. I guess the Debian package of gradle
fixed the issue, since it is gradle 4.4.
Android Studio ships with its own (really old) embedded copy of
OpenJDK8, so Android developers on Debian will need to do:
export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/android-studio/jre
.hc
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