Comment 7 for bug 1706442

Independent of the "Java is completely broken" issue, I do think the originally stated case of "ca-certificate-java should support openjdk-8" is still totally valid. Installing this package seems to bring in java 7 even when you already have 8 installed.

The current situation is pretty ridiculous. Java 7 is EOL and not useful to the majority of users of the most popular languages on the planet. Java 8 is only available via an unsupported PPA, and any attempt to get support (either here, or on the PPA, or via the request process to get Java 8 added to Trusty) has simply failed.

I hate being that guy whining on the bug tracker, but Ubuntu is really dropping the ball on this one. Just look at the request for an official Java 8 packaging: https://bugs.launchpad.net/trusty-backports/+bug/1368094 with 750 "+1"s.

The community is trying to work with Ubuntu to highlight this and get it fixed, but every attempt either gets ignored or closed as invalid...