Bug#910407: openjfx: Need for openjfx for both OpenJDK8 and OpenJDK11

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Hi Norbert,

Le 06/10/2018 à 03:44, Norbert Preining a écrit :

> I recently found that sid now carries openjfx in version 11, which made
> the programs I am developing with ScalaFX stop working. ScalaFX uses
> JavaFX8 and there are no builds available for OpenJDK/JavaFX11 by now.

Did you try ScalaFX 10? It seems to support Java 10. There is also a
SFX-11 branch supporting Java 11:

https://github.com/scalafx/scalafx/tree/SFX-11


> I think in the same way as with jdk/jre itself, it would be useful to
> have openjfx-8 and openjfx-11 available.

openjdk-8 is still there because we haven't completed the transition to
Java 11 yet. It may remain in Buster but only as a build dependency,
there is no plan to support it at runtime. Java based applications in
Buster must run on Java 11 (it should soon become the default JRE).

For these reasons packaging openjfx-8 doesn't really make sense. That
would be a string preventing us from moving forward.

Emmanuel Bourg