On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 01:21:16PM +0100, Peter Boy Uni wrote:
> > Indeed. In f42 all older jdks 17-8 will be gone. Until EOL of f41, I will 
> > do my best to keep it alive. If you will move to Temurins in meantime (the 
> > repository is already available) better for everybody I think.
> 
> I guess, that’s really a bad decision. 
> 
> Currently, Jakarta EE 10 - a core part of the Java universe – is the current 
> release (unless I missed the final EE 11 release announcement) and is 
> specified for Java SE 11 & 17. And we are going to remove just these versions 
> in F42?  
> 
> And Wildfly – part of our own software family – says "You need Java (at least 
> version 11, and preferably 17) and Maven installed on your machine …“ [1] 
> (Link  prominently on the landing page). And we are going to remove just 
> these versions in F42?
> 
> That seems pretty crazy to me.  
> 
> And wouldn't it perhaps make sense to ask our users beforehand or at least 
> analyze the downloads to see what the actual demand is? 

  Regardless of user needs, the problem here is lack of maintainership 
resources. If nobody steps up
to maintain old versions of Java, no amount of "user requests" are gonna
keep those packages viable.


  Nb. I'm partly affected, as I run my home automation on an old OpenHAB1,
requiring Java 1.8.0. I did not have time to port my configuration to
newer openhab versions.

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