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APRS daemon for Polaric Server
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Move to Java 9 and later (10, 11) #27

Closed ohanssen closed 6 years ago

ohanssen commented 6 years ago

There is at least one practical problem doing this:

Debian stable doesn't have Java 9, it is available as a backport, but Scala breaks. Scala seems to be updated in Debian Buster (Testing) but there is no backport. The release is estimated to be mid 2019 which in my opinion is far to long to wait!! This is a known problem with Debian releases.

So, is it ok if the next version of Polaric aprsd requires Debian Testing, Unstable, Ubuntu 18 or later?

ohanssen commented 6 years ago

Another challenge: jsvc doesn't work with Java 9 and later. It is fixed at the source but it is still not in Debian a year after.

ohanssen commented 6 years ago

It now depends on Java 10 or 11. Init script and Main is rewriten do do without jsvc.