Re: Bug#975016: Python 2 / OpenJDK 15 support state for Bullseye
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:20:37PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> [removed the Python 2 bits]
>
> On 11/17/20 11:08 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Package: debian-security-support
> > Severity: normal
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: doko@debian.org, team@security.debian.org
>
> > openjdk-15 will be included, but not covered by support
> > (as it's only needed to bootstrap openjdk-16 and eventually
> > openjdk-17, the next LTS release of Java).
> >
> > How about the following for "security-support-limited"?
> >
> > --------------------
> > openjdk-15 Only included for bootstrapping later OpenJDK releases
> > --------------------
> >
> > One important thing: These only applies to Bullseye and
> > security-support-limited is currently independent of releases, so this
> > needs to be fixed or alternatively we need to stop rebuilding the current
> > unstable package for older releases and instead branch of per distro.
>
> As background: OpenJDK 12 can only be built with 11, 13 with 12, 14 with 13, 15
> with 14, 16 with 15. Only having 11 in bullseye would make backports more
> "interesting".
>
> For OpenJDK there are two other possibilities, which would require approval by
> release managers / stable release managers.
If the whole "buildlibs" (or however it gets called in the end) infrastructure is
ready for bullseye it would also be an option to include openjdk-15/openjdk-16 in
there? As such, it would be non-available to users by default, but present for
bootstraps.
Cheers,
Moritz
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