On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:31:30PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> I think nobody wants to switch default-jdk to 17 or even not ship
> 11 at all any more or stop supporting it during bullseye’s lifetime.
> Maybe that also was too implicit?
Exactly, the supported Java release for the entire Bullseye lifetime will
be 11 (which packages will build-depend on and what's provided by
default-jdk.
The idea is to include 15/16 so that later on when 17 is ready, 17
can be made available in addition via backports (since at some point
later in the bullseye lifecycle might be software one wants to run
which requires 17 as the next LTS.
Cheers,
Moritz
