Hi Emmanuel, Thank you for your answer. As far as I know, Debian "n" is only fully supported up to Debian "n+1" + 1 year. For example, full support of Strech will end on 2020. After this date, the LTS only supports a subset of all the packages, so it would not be crazy to let openjdk-8 unsupported during Buster's LTS period (and as migration from 8 to 11 is quite complex for big/entreprise software, I guess RedHat will extend the support period to please its key-account customers anyway). Having openjdk-8 in backports would be a nice workaround, but I thought backports were for packages backported from Debian "n+1". I'm pretty sure lots of users will like to have a simple way to install openjdk-8 on Buster.
Regards, Thomas ________________________________ De : Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> Envoyé : mercredi 10 avril 2019 09:02 À : Thomas L; debian-java@lists.debian.org Objet : Re: openjdk-8 removed from Buster? 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 >
