Re: OpenJDK for Bookworm and beyond

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Am Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 02:06:06PM +0200 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
> > Last point, we still have OpenJDK 8 in unstable to help with the bootstrapping
> > of some packages that can't build directly with the latest JDK (more
> > specifically, Kotlin and Scala). Similarly I think we should preserve OpenJDK
> > 11 in unstable after the transition to OpenJDK 17.
> 
> Who’s going to maintain that?
> 
> For OpenJDK 8 I took over because,

Do we even have to keep 8 around in unstable at this point? If people want to
bootstrap kotlin or scala for a new arch, why can't this happen on a buster system?

Cheers,
        Moritz