So, let me get this, you have removed OpenJDK 8 support because in 4 years it won't be supported? are you serious? this was a terrible decision.
I know of companies with servers in production that today are using Java 8 and it will be so for at least 3 to 4 years, having it back in backports is not good enough. The damage been done to Debian by not supporting this is bigger than you can imagine. Quoting original thread: 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 >
