Re: openjdk-8 re-uploaded to unstable (currently in NEW)

From	Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.java, linux.debian.security
Subject	Re: openjdk-8 re-uploaded to unstable (currently in NEW)
Date	2019-05-26 23:50 +0200
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Le 26/05/2019 à 21:13, Matthias Klose a écrit :

> The openjdk-8 packages which were unfortunately removed from unstable (although
> the issue #915620 only asked for the removal of some binaries), are now again in
> NEW, targeting unstable.

Thank you for the upload Matthias.

> I honestly don't understand why FTP master would have such an objection, so
> please clarify what prohibits the acceptance to unstable with an RC issue to not
> propagate these packages to testing.

+1

Building Kotlin is going to become critical to keep the Java ecosystem
in Debian up to date. The situation is already quite complicated and it
would be nice not to add more hurdles with and experimental only
openjdk-8 package.

Thank you,

Emmanuel Bourg

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