[btw are you subscribed to the list? Then I don't need to CC you] Am 14.02.19 um 00:09 schrieb Thomas Finneid: [...] > No matter how one looks at it, Debian needs to make a strategy change > regarding OpenJdk releases and versions supported. We did take all that into consideration. :) If you had followed our efforts during the past two years in unstable, you would have noticed several transitions. We are fully aware of the new Oracle release model and it is even more painful for distributions like Debian. We will never ship a six month release in a stable version of Debian but we had to adapt to all the changes that happened in OpenJDK 9 and 10 before we made OpenJDK 11 the default. Every challenge you can see as a developer, we can see on a scale of 1000 source packages too. You can only do two things: Stick with the older OpenJDK 8 for library foo and application bar or port everything to OpenJDK 11. If you mix both approaches you have to support two OpenJDKs, if you can manage to port them to the LTS release, you can simply use one long-term supported JDK for everything. If you want to keep OpenJDK 8 in Debian, then there is Debian bug #920037 for you: https://bugs.debian.org/920037 You need to covince Moritz Muehlenhoff (security team) and Matthias Klose (maintainer of OpenJDK). Regards, Markus
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