Bug#900299: leiningen-clojure: depends on openjdk-8

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

severity 900299 serious
thanks

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 12:45:45PM -0400, Elana Hashman wrote:
> On 2018-06-04 10:19, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > 
> > OpenJDK 8 will be EOL sometime in 2020 (Red Hat will drop support for it
> > in
> > October 2020). With a buster release in mid 2019, that would only be a
> > little
> > over one year into buster's release. With 3 years of main support, that
> > won't be
> > enough. Thus the OpenJDK maintainers aim to switch to Java 11 for buster
> > (default-jdk already points to 10, and will be switched to 11 once it's
> > released
> > in September) [1]. Also note that pre-releases of 11 are available in
> > sid and
> > testing.
> 
> Hello Emilio,
> 
> The latest I've seen from RedHat is that they will be supporting openjdk-8
> until
> June 2023[*]. The 2020 deadline applies to openjdk-7, not 8. Does this mean
> that
> openjdk-8 will no longer be dropped from buster?

We can only support one OpenJDK relase in a stable release and that version
will be openjdk-11. I'm bumping the severity back to serious.

Cheers,
        Moritz