Matthias has restarted the packaging from the latest version of openjdk-7 and merged some of my changes. The repository is on Launchpad: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openjdk/openjdk/openjdk8/files Now if I could be added to the OpenJDK Team I'd be happy to continue on this repository, but it's up to Matthias to decide. Emmanuel Bourg