Ubuntu 19.04 lacks OpenJDK 8 (because upstream deleted it?)

[Robert E. Young]

Hi,

I'm not a package maintainer or anything, but it makes sense to me to 
drop support in a non-LTS release leading up to 20.04. Since 18.04 is 
supported until 2023, this aligns pretty well with dropping support for 
a software that is EOL in 2022. It's not always what we want to hear, 
but if you require long-term supported software, you should probably 
stay on a long-term supported release. I would continue to ping 
Launchpad to see if anyone creates a PPA for openjdk-8. If you are so 
inclined, you could be the one that maintains it (not something I know 
how to do, but maybe you do).

On 4/21/19 1:58 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I know that I should have checked this a month ago... but upstream Debian
> appears to have deleted OpenJDK 8 (with no reason given) and likewise it
> appears to have disappeared mostly from Ubuntu 19.04.
>
> I've been looking around on launchpad to try to find out what's going on
> but so far without sucess.  Does anyone have any suggestions for me?
>
> (To head off well meaning comments - OpenJDK 8 is still live and supported
> through 2022 or so, and OpenJDK 11 breaks too many things to work as-is as
> a dropin substitute).
>