In other circumstances that would be OK, but Oracle pulling the plug and Debian as well, also; I get that point, but there were two reasons given, not one:
*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.* So it looked to me the 1st point made wasn't as important as you want to point out, the transition from JDK 8 to 11 is too big to just treat as JDK 5 to 6 and so on. Guido. On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 16:08, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> wrote: > Hey Guido, > > I think you are missing the key point here: "We don't have the resources > to maintain more than one version". So if you think it is important, > you should find the resources to make it happen. That's how Debian works. > > .hc > > Guido Medina: > > 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 > >> > > > >
