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Re: Reintroducing openjdk-8 for Bullseye?

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On Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:11:12 PM PDT Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Graham Inggs:
> > 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?
> 
> Why did they stop providing the bundled JDK?  Do the AdoptOpenJDK
> builds work?  If not, then why would a Debian build of openjdk-8 be
> any different?

JDK 8 is already EOL, current JDK LTS release is 11. I would advice against 
putting an EOLed product into a not yet released Bullseye

Java has pretty good backwards compatibility so code that works on JDK 8 should work on 
JDK 11

Just my 2 cents.

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Ihor Antonov
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Reintroducing openjdk-8 for Bullseye? Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian.org> - 2020-04-09 21:10 +0200
  Re: Reintroducing openjdk-8 for Bullseye? Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2020-04-09 21:20 +0200
    Re: Reintroducing openjdk-8 for Bullseye? Ihor Antonov <ihor@antonovs.family> - 2020-04-09 22:10 +0200
    Re: Reintroducing openjdk-8 for Bullseye? Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian.org> - 2020-04-09 22:30 +0200
      Re: Reintroducing openjdk-8 for Bullseye? Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> - 2020-04-09 23:00 +0200

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