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Re: OpenJDK for Bookworm and beyond



On Thu, 29 Sep 2022, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:

> > Who’s going to maintain that?
> 
> I don't think the maintenance is a concern, we only have to ensure it
> keeps building in sid.

Yeah well, that’s maintenance, and that was missing for 8 as shown in:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981811#5

> It's just to compile stuff in sid, not to run critical
> production systems.

If it’s used to base security updates for bullseye on, then no,
it’ll be used to run critical production systems (indirectly:
not the sid binaries, but the others).

> > So I think we should keep 11 around *only* if someone (could be Doko,
> > could be someone else) commits to maintaining it. If nobody does, Scala
> > and Kotlin are SOL.
> 
> I don't mind for Scala, but Kotlin can't be ignored unfortunately. Its
> integration into Gradle makes it an essential part of the Java ecosystem.

Then we should find something who takes on the maintenance burden.

bye,
//mirabilos
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