Re: Bug#975016: Python 2 / OpenJDK 15 support state for Bullseye
On 11/18/20 7:46 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 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.
sure, if you don't change it for the sid/unstable packages.
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