Hi Emmanuel, On 5/20/19 12:10 PM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 20/05/2019 à 10:48, Aleksey Shipilev a écrit : >> 11.0.3+1 is the old pre-release, the GA is jdk-11.0.3+7 / jdk-11.0.3-ga: >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk11u/tags > > I can only comment on the OpenJDK 11 backport in Stretch since I'm the > one who uploaded it last month. Debian 9 "Stretch" is far from being > usable with Java 11 (we poured a lot of work into Debian 10 to make this > possible) and this backport can only be reasonably seen as a technology > preview aimed at gathering feedback. Right. Maybe then "-ea" or "-preview" in version tag would communicate that intent more clearly, on the off-chance "stretch" users would install openjdk-11, thinking it is somehow stable. > I intend to update it to a more recent version, but by policy the > packages backported to the stable release cannot have a more recent > version than the one in the testing repository (the packages staged for > the next stable release). So as soon as an updated version transitions > to testing (11.0.3+1 currently as you pointed out) I'll upload a new > backport. Excellent, do you have any rough ETA? Having 11.0.4+x in "unstable" (preferably with "-ea" suffix) and 11.0.3+7 in "testing"/"stable" would be the good state for the current moment. >> Both GAs were released a month ago, and it is surprising for users to have pre-release binaries >> instead of GA binaries at this point. Separately, it feels tad dubious to put out the pre-release >> binaries into "stable", IMO, but that is a separate longer-term discussion. > > I agree that we should preferably only upload the GA tags (or newers if > there are fixes worth picking) to avoid diverging too much with the > upstream releases. Yup, would be nice if outlier like the current one does not happen again. I think you can always check with upstream 8u/11u maintainers if the tags you're building from are sane for "stable", especially if you cannot see the -ga tags in the upstream repo. Cheers, -Aleksey
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