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

[Per Lundberg]

On 2/4/19 10:07 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:

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

Yes, it was stated in this thread earlier that such packages do exist.

Emmanuel/others, is this the correct list of packages which can only be 
built w/ openjdk-8 or am I missing something out? If so, it doesn't seem 
like a huge list and making all of these work on openjdk-11 "could" be 
doable/the release could possibly live without them. (well, ideally not 
of course)

$ grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends openjdk-8 -sPackage /var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources
Package: virtualbox
Package: icedtea-web
Package: jzmq
Package: leiningen-clojure
Package: libbluray
Package: lombok
Package: openjdk-8
Package: openjdk-8-jre-dcevm
Package: openjdk-8
Package: openjfx
Package: uwsgi

Personally, I still rely on openjdk-8 for my work (because of customer 
environments still using it for at least 3-5 more years), but I can live 
with getting it from an unofficial repository. It's more important to 
provide a smooth user experience for the majority of people, who are 
perhaps not _developers_ of Java-based software but more _users_ of the 
same.

Best regards,
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Per