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

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>On Wed, 2026-07-22 at 19:10 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> On 2026-07-22 00:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

>> > Could you update openjdk-8 to this version so we can bootstrap it on riscv64?

Sure, can do, but other than enable the arch in the arch list,
I cannot do much, you’ll also have to figure out how to bootstrap,
given it needs itself (or, in theory, openjdk-7) for that and cannot
be built with even openjdk-11.

>> 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.

I’ve heard rumours that it could possibly work with Gtk+3, not that
anyone could possibly *want* that, which I need to investigate.

>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.

And for bootstrapping things (e.g. the Kotlin line), but these
probably can be done on amd64.

The package is also ready for builds on wheezy/precise and up
in theory, and I build for buster/trusty and up in my own repo
and PPA, and ELTS builds for stretch (and used to for jessie).
It’s unstable-only in Debian because we don’t want to have to
security-support more than one release per Debian release, which
is sane, and because having it in sid is useful as staging ground,
for QA, to have a common base to build from, etc.

I’ll try to get to it on the weekend.

bye,
//mirabilos
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