severity 900299 serious thanks On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 12:45:45PM -0400, Elana Hashman wrote: > 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?
We can only support one OpenJDK relase in a stable release and that version will be openjdk-11. I'm bumping the severity back to serious. Cheers, Moritz