Re: Kotlin and OpenJDK 8 in Bookworm?

2023-02-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Dixi quod… >On Mon, 30 Jan 2023, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >> I suggest that we let openjdk-8 transition to testing now before the >> beginning of the soft freeze, just to keep our options open. […] >then, if we indeed can keep the options open. The MIPS buildds are at it currently and expected to f

Re: help with plugin versions and maven-debian-helper

2023-02-10 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 2023-02-10 15:01, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : DevRef §6.7.8.2 indicates that using such a suffix for *all* repacked origtgz is better. Almost all our packages are repacked, that's pointless and brings no useful information. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-

Re: Java 8 security patching

2023-02-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, James Kennard wrote: >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? I don’t know what Temurin even is. While I do recommend that people switch to default-jdk, and in

Re: help with plugin versions and maven-debian-helper

2023-02-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >>> - Drop the +ds suffix >> >> Why? Isn't that traditionally used to show a repack? > > I have a preference for clean version numbers. The suffix is useful > if a version was already packaged and needs to be modified afterward > because unwanted files we

Re: help with plugin versions and maven-debian-helper

2023-02-10 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 2023-02-10 01:50, Joe Nahmias a écrit : - Don't build the -java-doc package, that's useless Um, why do you say it's useless? Because with every new Java release we keep getting new javadoc issues breaking the builds and violating the Debian policies. Considering that almost nobody use the

Re: Java 8 security patching

2023-02-10 Thread James Kennard
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