Bug#893227: libbluray FTBFS with openjdk-9

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Hi Sebastian,

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 17:07:38 +0200 Sebastian Ramacher wrote:

> Where can I find an official announcement that openjdk-8 will be dropped?

The Java Team intends to switch to OpenJDK 11 for Buster (11 is the next
Java LTS release). OpenJDK 8 isn't guaranteed to be supported upstream
beyond 2020 and thus shouldn't be used for Buster. The issue is, we
don't know yet if we'll manage to complete the transition to OpenJDK 11
in time for Buster, so as a last resort we may revert to OpenJDK 8.
We'll assess the situation before the freeze, but it's critical that
packages get fixed as soon as possible.

Emmanuel Bourg