Bug#897945: #897945 still present/breaks with Java 8

[Markus Koschany]

Am 29.01.19 um 14:19 schrieb Per Lundberg:
> Hi Markus,
> 
> On 1/29/19 1:32 PM, Markus Koschany wrote:
>>
>>> I am sorry but OpenJDK 8 will not be supported at runtime in
>>> Buster.
> Another question: if this is the case, should the openjdk-8-jdk package 
> (and friends) be removed altogether in sid? I looked briefly but 
> couldn't find any bugs mentioning this.

This is Debian bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/920037

We usually ship only with one JDK per release because of security
support. OpenJDK 8 will be EOL before the end of the Debian 10 release
cycle. We still have a couple of packages that will not compile with
OpenJDK 11 hence we also thought about shipping OpenJDK 8 for building
those packages but declaring it as unsupported at runtime. However, as
this bug report shows, people tend to assume that OpenJDK 8 is supported
as well. So we either end up without OpenJDK 8 in Buster at all and with
less packages, that are only there to build other packages, or we
declare OpenJDK 8 as unsupported at runtime in our release notes which
carries the risk of nobody reading them.

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