>From what I can tell, the rationale for adding the "Breaks" directive in openjdk-8 was that with the current version of ca-certificates-java, users who do not use one of the enumerated JVMs will not have their cert store updated when this package gets updated, which is a security problem for those users.
It's true that openjdk-8 comes from a PPA, but since it appears trivial to add support (see links) I don't see why not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenJDK, which is subscribed to ca-certificates-java in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1706442 Title: please add support for openjdk-8 Status in ca-certificates-java package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Please add support for OpenJDK 8. I conjecture that this can be done by adding the relevant packages to the postinst script (see links). 1) $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Release: 14.04 2) $ apt-cache policy ca-certificates-java ca-certificates-java: Installed: 20130815ubuntu1 Candidate: 20130815ubuntu1 Version table: *** 20130815ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3-4) Cannot update openjdk-8 due to unmet dependencies. $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jdk-headless openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: openjdk-8-jre-headless : Depends: ca-certificates-java but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. $ aptitude why-not ca-certificates-java i ca-certificates-java Depends openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7~u3-2.1.1~pre1-1 ) | java6-runtime-headless p A openjdk-8-jre-headless Provides java6-runtime-headless p A openjdk-8-jre-headless Breaks ca-certificates-java (< 20160321~) Links: * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851667 * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775775 * https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-java/trunk/ca-certificates-java/debian/postinst.in?r1=19012&r2=19013 This is the first Ubuntu bug report I have filed. Please excuse any bureaucratic errors I may have made. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates-java/+bug/1706442/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
