Re: oracle-j{dk,re}8 removal proposal

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:44:28 +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> We also still have oracle-jre8 and oracle-jdk8, binary packages for
> the Linux versions of Java 8 from Oracle. The distfiles are not freely
> available, you have to agree to a license to download them.

I thought I'd spoken up, but apparently didn't. Too much going on right 
now. Anyway...

> I propose removing these packages for these reasons:
> - Linux binary

That is precisely why we may have wanted to keep the packages. I don't 
think software running under emul_linux will be very happy with a 
native JDK.

I guess there should be a suitable emulators/suseNN_java package as a 
replacement.

Cheerio,
Hauke


(I noticed you, erm, de-caffeinated sysutils/tsm8 without notifying the 
maintainer.)

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