On 2018-06-04 10:19, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
OpenJDK 8 will be EOL sometime in 2020 (Red Hat will drop support for
it in
October 2020). With a buster release in mid 2019, that would only be a
little
over one year into buster's release. With 3 years of main support, that
won't be
enough. Thus the OpenJDK maintainers aim to switch to Java 11 for
buster
(default-jdk already points to 10, and will be switched to 11 once it's
released
in September) [1]. Also note that pre-releases of 11 are available in
sid and
testing.
Hello Emilio,
The latest I've seen from RedHat is that they will be supporting
openjdk-8 until
June 2023[*]. The 2020 deadline applies to openjdk-7, not 8. Does this
mean that
openjdk-8 will no longer be dropped from buster?
I continue to poke upstream to work on Java 11 compatibility before the
buster
freeze, but I cannot do the work myself, as it is more of a refactor
than a simple
patch.
- e
[*]: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013
