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
--
.''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
: :' : Debian Developer
`. `' Physicist
`- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
More information about the pkg-java-maintainers
mailing list