[Bug 1760920] Re: FFe: sync java packages from Debian to fix OpenJDK 9/10 issues

[Steve Langasek]

** Changed in: java-common (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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Title:
  FFe: sync java packages from Debian to fix OpenJDK 9/10 issues

Status in java-common package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Asking for a FFe exception to keep in sync (or merging) with Java
  packages as uploaded to Debian, until the 18.04 LTS release.  As
  outlined in

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
  release/2018-March/004359.html

  we are planning to update to the next so called OpenJDK LTS version,
  which is to be released in September/October 2018.  Java 10 and Java
  11 support will likely require new upstream versions, and it's
  probably not feasible to backport compatibility patches for ~1300
  source packages.  However the impact on the archive is somehow limited
  as the java universe is much self contained (packages only build indep
  packages related to Java).  To give an idea about which packages may
  need an update, please see

    https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-java-
  maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org

  That's the majority of packages, however there maybe be pure java
  packages maintained by other people as well.

  Care should be taken for packages which build java unrelated binary
  packages, and only provide java bindings, as an update to a new
  version might have more impact on other packages.

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