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

[Steve Langasek]

This list of 1001 source packages has 284 other source packages as reverse-dependencies in the archive.  Of these, the ones that are seeded are:
 - asciidoc
 - erlang
 - evolution-data-server
 - hsqldb1.8.0
 - libbluray
 - libreoffice
 - openjdk itself
 - openjpeg2
 - publican
 - ust
 - sheepdog

Particular care should be taken when making changes to the dependencies
of these packages.

The blanket FFe does not encompass the introduction of any sort of
transitions.  In approving this FFe, I am expecting that any individual
package within this list remains interface-compatible, and if you need
to make changes that are not interface-compatible, you will surface
those to the release team first for further discussion.

Within those constraints, I am granting this blanket FFe to allow
completion of the openjdk-10 transition for 18.04.

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

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

Status in java-common package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

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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