On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 03:04:41PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > I would add a NEWS file to OpenJDK 8 and explain the situation and in > addition create a wrapper around the OpenJDK 8 java command that prints > out a message and quits. javac shall continue to work because it is > needed to build some packages. The debconf approach could also work but > it is a bit more work to implement. Then we also announce it via release > news. Just some thoughts.
What is the specific use case for this, is there some package which needs 8 and can't be fixed in time for 11? If we do keep openjdk-8 after all, could we simply omit the jre binary packages when building for distrel=buster? That should ensure that noone uses an unsupported Java (along with a NEWS file maybe) to run Java applications. Cheers, Moritz