Hi Thomas,

Our policy is to support only one version of OpenJDK per Debian release.
We don't have the resources to maintain more than one version during the
whole lifetime of a release. Buster will be supported until 2024 and Red
Hat has vowed to maintain OpenJDK 8 until 2023. That would leave OpenJDK
8 in Buster without security fixes for one year.

If you aren't ready to migrate to OpenJDK 11 yet I suggest sticking with
Stretch for the next 3 years. Alternatively, we may provide OpenJDK 8
for Buster in the backports repository, but we can't guarantee it'll be
actively maintained.

Emmanuel Bourg


Le 09/04/2019 à 16:18, Thomas L a écrit :
> Hi all,
> It seems that openjdk-8 has been removed from Buster a few days ago. Why?? 
> openjdk-11 is not a drop-in replacement for openjdk-8, lots of people 
> (including me) will NEED openjdk-8 in Buster!
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 

Reply via email to