Our policy is to support only one version of OpenJDK per Debian release.
So this was a deliberate decision? Can you point me at any public discussion log? #915620 makes it look like it was a mistake.
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.
Security fixes *from Red Hat*, sure. It's quite possible others will provide security support after 2023. Or even that Red Hat extend their commitment. However this does sound mostly reasonable, if seemingly post-hoc justification. Except: have you any confidence that all the Java applications in Debian actually work properly with OpenJDK 11? Red Hat still have hard dependencies on Java 8 for much of their stuff, including Maven. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
