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Re: Java 8 security patching

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Hi Thorsten,

Thank you for your continued effort in keeping java 8 up-to-date for the
Debian and Ubuntu communities.

Is there a particular reason why you are continuing to update it as opposed
to recommending people switch to an alternative distribution such as
Temurin?

All the best,

James


On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 20:29, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Feb 2023, James Kennard wrote:
>
> >How long will Debian continue to provide a build of openjdk-8? And how
> long
> >will Debian continue to apply security patches to openjdk-8?
>
> The ELTS team is going to support openjdk-8 in jessie and stretch
> for as long as they get paid for (see the ELTS project’s pages for
> more information).
>
> Currently, they’re coordinating with me, I’m uploading new releases
> to unstable to take as base for the backported builds as time permits
> and sponsored by my employer (see below); however, openjdk-8 in sid
> is not officially supported in Debian and has not since 2019-07-06 if
> not earlier. For a given release, only default-jdk is supported; that
> is 11 for buster and bullseye, and 17 for bookworm; any other JDK that
> mey be available is either legacy compat or technology preview and
> completely unsupported (modulo individual volunteer effort as usual).
>
> If you need some level of support for openjdk-8, I suggest to contact
> Freexian (the ELTS coordinator). For uploads to unstable to continue,
> you might want to contract my employer so I can continue to do this,
> as it takes a couple of person-hours each quarter plus extra love for
> e.g. getting the tests to pass better. I also have an APT repository
> in which I publish builds of openjdk-8 for wheezy (EOL though), buster,
> bullseye and even bookworm (those not covered by ELTS), and a PPA at
> Launchpad in which I do the same for *buntu LTS releases; if you have
> interest in these I might also be made available via my employer. (The
> repositories are currently available to the public but unsupported. I
> also can only build for x86 at the moment.)
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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  Re: Java 8 security patching Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-02-08 21:30 +0100
    Re: Java 8 security patching James Kennard <james.kennard@livingwith.health> - 2023-02-10 10:00 +0100
      Re: Java 8 security patching Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-02-10 15:10 +0100
        Re: Java 8 security patching James Kennard <james.kennard@livingwith.health> - 2023-02-13 11:00 +0100
          Re: Java 8 security patching Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-02-13 15:10 +0100
            Re: Java 8 security patching James Kennard <james.kennard@livingwith.health> - 2023-02-13 16:50 +0100
              Re: Java 8 security patching Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2023-02-13 17:50 +0100

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