Bug#893302: lwjgl FTBFS with openjdk-9

[Markus Koschany]

Am 25.04.2018 um 03:09 schrieb Michael Gilbert:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Markus Koschany wrote:
>> lwjgl 2.9.3 is a legacy release from 2015. It is the last version of the
>> 2.x series and no longer supported. Upstream moved to lwjgl 3. If nobody
>> can fix this we should consider to remove lwjgl because the new version
>> 3 would require new Kotlin build dependencies and more.
> 
> Does anyone know what the plan is for openjdk-8 in buster?  If it
> isn't going to go away, the easiest thing may be to depend on it
> instead of default-jdk.
> 
> It look like after many years now, no one has tried to put together a
> kotlin compiler package, so supporting lwjgl3 seems very unlikely.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Mike

The current plan is to only ship OpenJDK 11 in Buster but I can imagine
that we keep OpenJDK 8 just for building packages but depend on OpenJDK
11 at runtime. OpenJDK 8 will be supported until 2020 but even without
support it should be safe to use for development purposes. Ok, let's
keep that in mind and see what happens.

Regards,

Markus

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