[Android-tools-devel] Bug#894285: some progress

[Markus Koschany]

Am 25.01.19 um 13:23 schrieb seamlik at debian.org:
>> I believe the only chance to save this package in time for Buster is to use OpenJDK 8.
> 
> That seems to be a reasonable choice. Right now Android apps are simply not supposed to use Java 9+.
> 
> But for how long will JDK8 be supported in Debian? I don't want this package be a burden of any future transition.

Actually we wanted to get rid of OpenJDK 8 in Buster. It is still
officially supported upstream, at least until 2020, maybe even longer.
However security support for two runtimes is time consuming and there is
no appetite from the security team for that. However I think they can be
persuaded to accept that OpenJDK 8 is only used at build time as long as
the applications work with OpenJDK 11 at runtime. You could also declare
certain packages as unsupported at runtime because they are only used
for development purposes.



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