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openjdk-8 package

  1. Bug #2063834
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 2063834

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote : Re: [Openjdk] [Bug 2063834] Re: openjdk-8-jre:i386 openjdk-8-jre-headless:i386 missing for noble

On 27.04.24 00:39, Steve Langasek wrote:
> "Drop hard-coded entry for openjdk-8
>
> In theory this entry was added for 'bootstrapping',

correct.

> but we have definitely
> not needed openjdk-8 for bootstrapping newer openjdks for a long time.

but it's needed to start building openjdk-8 on i386 on new releases.

> It is possible to restore this in 24.04 but someone would need to
> present a use case for it.

the use case should be known to you, it didn't change over time. There
are legacy apps built for i386 only, also using the client VM for i386.