On 12/31/2014 04:23 PM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 31/12/2014 11:19, Thomas Zlika a écrit : > >> Thanks for the tip and the pre-built binaries. >> However, the version is sid is a beta release (I think 8u40 will not be >> released >> before spring) so I would prefer a more stable version. >> Btw, I don't understand why sid has a so "cutting edge" version. >> As I understand the purpose for the different Debian repositories, this >> would better fit >> in the experimental repo. > > Not sure, but I believe Matthias packaged a more recent build to get a > better compatibility on the architectures supported by Debian. The > updates will probably follow the Oracle releases in the future.
Thomas, if you have the resources, then you can surely pack another openjdk-8 version. Maybe you don't care about AArch64 and ppc64le, but building for these architectures some backports are required. Feel free to address these. Unstable is perfectly fine for a package like openjdk-8, which is not released with jessie. And if you have time to kill, there are still a lot of outstanding issues to build the archive with java8 ... Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54b9219a.9010...@debian.org
