at bottom :- On 06/11/2018, Behrooz Nobakht <nob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you all for the explanations. It quite clarifies what can be > expected. > > There is still one open question from the explanations above. The next > Debian > LTS will default OpenJDK 11. Does this mean that it would not be possible > to have > OpenJDK 11 on the current Debian LTS in some way? > > Thanks, > Behrooz >
Dear Behrooz, While there is backports https://wiki.debian.org/Backports which means in theory you could have OpenJDK 11 in stable but in practical terms it may not be easy. AFAIK the java-team is smallish and needs more active hands. There has been lot of code removed from java and made into stand-alone packages . Migration even now may/might be a pain in some corner cases which we do not know about as well as scenarios from stable to current testing. See https://salsa.debian.org/groups/java-team/-/group_members to see the current make-up of the team. You could look at the number of commits etc. to see who are more active and probably would have more of a say as to what happens. See https://wiki.debian.org/WhyDebianForDevelopers for a historical perspective of why things are the way they are, specifically The Social Contract https://wiki.debian.org/WhyDebianForDevelopers#Social_Contract See https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-java-maintainers/2018-November/thread.html and especially the auto-removal of binaries in testing. One way to keep track things is to use https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-11 . If you want you could open a wishlist bug against openjdk11 saying you want in backports. Realistically though, I see it as a longshot and the only window might be during the long freeze but that is also IF there aren't any RC bugs for openjdk-11 https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ One thing to keep in mind though, this is my personal opinion as a user and observer of Debian-java-team and nothing more than that. At the end the decisions are made by those who do the work. <snipped> > > -- > -- Behrooz Nobakht > -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
