Re: openjdk-8 removed from Buster?

2019-04-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > 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 Ehm, you realise that openjdk-8 was removed from both unstable and experimental recently? (This seems to hav

RE: openjdk-8 removed from Buster?

2019-04-10 Thread Thomas L
Hi Emmanuel, Thank you for your answer. As far as I know, Debian "n" is only fully supported up to Debian "n+1" + 1 year. For example, full support of Strech will end on 2020. After this date, the LTS only supports a subset of all the packages, so it would not be crazy to let openjdk-8 unsupporte

Re: openjdk-8 removed from Buster?

2019-04-10 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
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 Ope