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OpenJDK #213

Closed kemra102 closed 5 years ago

kemra102 commented 5 years ago

What new package do you want?

OpenJDK 10.x OpenJDK 11.x

Why?

At the current pace of Java language development having access to newer versions of the OpenJDK would allow our developers make use of those advancements far sooner than waiting for a new EL release would normally allow.

Testing

I agree to test the new package to ensure that it works as expected. Once I am satisfied with the results of my testing I will comment on this issue with the word "STABLE" to get it promoted to the stable repos.

carlwgeorge commented 5 years ago

Please limit wishlist requests to one package per request.

I don't know much about the Java ecosystem. It appears that RHEL 7 ships JDK6, JDK7, and JDK8 as separate packages that use the alternatives system to set up common paths. Fedora has JDK8, JDK10, and JDK11. As of Fedora 28 their plan is to have a single unversioned java-openjdk package that tracks the short term releases, and versioned package names (e.g. java-11-openjdk) for the long term releases. I found a document from a Red Hat employee that states JDK11 should eventually be available in RHEL 7 (page 19).

Since JDK10 was a short term release, it is already EOL.

Since java-11-openjdk isn't currently in RHEL, I believe it's eligible for EPEL. You should open a bugzilla and ask the Fedora maintainer to branch and build for EPEL. This would of course be removed from EPEL if java-11-openjdk is officially added to RHEL 7.