[Bug 1706442] Re: please add support for openjdk-8

2017-07-26 Thread Nick Gaya
>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

[Bug 1706442] [NEW] please add support for openjdk-8

2017-07-25 Thread Nick Gaya
Public bug reported: 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