Bug#958018: java-common: Provide some kind of latest-jre/latest-jdk packages

John Scott jscott at posteo.net
Sat Jul 25 00:06:00 BST 2020


I would also like this. Usually, in the case of GCC or LLVM, they keep their 
metapackages in experimental following the newest major version. However, the 
OpenJDK metapackages in experimental point to OpenJDK 12 which doesn't appear 
to exist anymore, instead of version 14 or 15.

So if java-common could be rebuilt in experimental, that'd be well sufficient. 

For anyone else interested in keeping ahead of changes, I do it with apt 
pinning since apt now supports pinning based on source packages:
Package: src:gcc-defaults src:llvm-defaults
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 500
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