Bug#1142565: openjdk-8: Please update to jdk8u502-ga to enable riscv64 support

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Wed Jul 22 20:13:22 BST 2026


Hi Aurelien,

On Wed, 2026-07-22 at 19:10 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Could you update openjdk-8 to this version so we can bootstrap it on riscv64?
> 
> Do we really want to have openjdk-8 on riscv64? opendjk-8 is forced out 
> of testing and is one of the package preventing the removal of GTK 2.

Since openjdk-8 is restricted to unstable, I think it won't hurt to enable it
on riscv64 as well. openjdk-8 is useful to run some application that are
incompatible with newer OpenJDK versions.

Adrian

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