Bug#897945: [Openjdk] Bug#920037: Bug#897945: #897945 still present/breaks with Java 8

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 03:04:41PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> I would add a NEWS file to OpenJDK 8 and explain the situation and in
> addition create a wrapper around the OpenJDK 8 java command that prints
> out a message and quits. javac shall continue to work because it is
> needed to build some packages. The debconf approach could also work but
> it is a bit more work to implement. Then we also announce it via release
> news. Just some thoughts.

What is the specific use case for this, is there some package which
needs 8 and can't be fixed in time for 11?

If we do keep openjdk-8 after all, could we simply omit the jre binary
packages when building for distrel=buster? That should ensure that noone
uses an unsupported Java (along with a NEWS file maybe) to run Java
applications.

Cheers,
        Moritz