Hi Robert, list; On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 9:37 AM Robert E. Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm not a package maintainer or anything, but it makes sense to me to > drop support in a non-LTS release leading up to 20.04. Since 18.04 is > supported until 2023, this aligns pretty well with dropping support for > a software that is EOL in 2022. It's not always what we want to hear, > but if you require long-term supported software, you should probably > stay on a long-term supported release. I would continue to ping > Launchpad to see if anyone creates a PPA for openjdk-8. If you are so > inclined, you could be the one that maintains it (not something I know > how to do, but maybe you do). > With respect, it doesn't make any sense to drop support for Java 8 considering that so many things don't work yet with Java 11 which is the next long-term release. There is an openjdk8 ppa for various versions of Java but it hasn't been yet updated beyond 18.10. I've messaged the admins, but so far no response. > On 4/21/19 1:58 PM, chris hermansen wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I know that I should have checked this a month ago... but upstream Debian > > appears to have deleted OpenJDK 8 (with no reason given) and likewise it > > appears to have disappeared mostly from Ubuntu 19.04. > > > > I've been looking around on launchpad to try to find out what's going on > > but so far without sucess. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? > > > > (To head off well meaning comments - OpenJDK 8 is still live and > supported > > through 2022 or so, and OpenJDK 11 breaks too many things to work as-is > as > > a dropin substitute). > -- Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com C'est ma façon de parler. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
