Hi Thorsten, Thank you for your continued effort in keeping java 8 up-to-date for the Debian and Ubuntu communities.
Is there a particular reason why you are continuing to update it as opposed to recommending people switch to an alternative distribution such as Temurin? All the best, James On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 20:29, Thorsten Glaser <t.gla...@tarent.de> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2023, James Kennard wrote: > > >How long will Debian continue to provide a build of openjdk-8? And how > long > >will Debian continue to apply security patches to openjdk-8? > > The ELTS team is going to support openjdk-8 in jessie and stretch > for as long as they get paid for (see the ELTS project’s pages for > more information). > > Currently, they’re coordinating with me, I’m uploading new releases > to unstable to take as base for the backported builds as time permits > and sponsored by my employer (see below); however, openjdk-8 in sid > is not officially supported in Debian and has not since 2019-07-06 if > not earlier. For a given release, only default-jdk is supported; that > is 11 for buster and bullseye, and 17 for bookworm; any other JDK that > mey be available is either legacy compat or technology preview and > completely unsupported (modulo individual volunteer effort as usual). > > If you need some level of support for openjdk-8, I suggest to contact > Freexian (the ELTS coordinator). For uploads to unstable to continue, > you might want to contract my employer so I can continue to do this, > as it takes a couple of person-hours each quarter plus extra love for > e.g. getting the tests to pass better. I also have an APT repository > in which I publish builds of openjdk-8 for wheezy (EOL though), buster, > bullseye and even bookworm (those not covered by ELTS), and a PPA at > Launchpad in which I do the same for *buntu LTS releases; if you have > interest in these I might also be made available via my employer. (The > repositories are currently available to the public but unsupported. I > also can only build for x86 at the moment.) > > bye, > //mirabilos > -- > Infrastrukturexperte • tarent solutions GmbH > Am Dickobskreuz 10, D-53121 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ > Telephon +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 > HRB AG Bonn 5168 • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 > Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander > Steeg > > > **************************************************** > /⁀\ The UTF-8 Ribbon > ╲ ╱ Campaign against Mit dem tarent-Newsletter nichts mehr verpassen: > ╳ HTML eMail! Also, https://www.tarent.de/newsletter > ╱ ╲ header encryption! > > **************************************************** >
