Reintroducing openjdk-8 for Bullseye?

[Graham Inggs]

Resending to team at security.debian.org

Note, there are already some replies at:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2020/04/msg00016.html


On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 20:57, Graham Inggs <ginggs at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Security Team
>
> The package nvidia-cuda-toolkit (non-free) ships some Java-based
> visual tools; Nvidia Visual Profiler and Nsight Eclipse Edition, which
> require the OpenJDK 8 JRE.
>
> When Debian switched default-jre, we started to ship Nvidia's bundled
> JRE as nvidia-openjdk-8-jre (see #900300).
>
> As of nvidia-cuda-toolkit 10.1.243, upstream stopped shipping the
> bundle JRE, and expect users to download it directly from Oracle.  We
> are considering our options, and one which is very attractive for us
> is for openjdk-8 to be reintroduced for Bullseye, but the question is
> who gets to maintain it?
>
> Please let us know your thoughts.
>
> Regards
> Graham