Re: Java update notices on Fedora 41

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM Peter Boy Uni <pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Am 13.02.2025 um 10:25 schrieb Jiri Vanek <jvanek@xxxxxxxxxx>:
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> > On 2/12/25 10:06 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> >> Mario Torre wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM Kevin Kofler via devel
> >>> <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Mario Torre wrote:
> >>>>> OpenJDK 11 is EOL in Fedora regardless of the Fedora version, it hasn’t
> >>>>> been updated in January for example.
> >>>>
> >>>> This is entirely unacceptable. The package shipped with Fedora 41, so it
> >>>> MUST get security backports until the Fedora 41 EOL. If the maintainers
> >>>> do not want to take care of that, they should orphan the package and let
> >>>> somebody else push the required security updates.
> >>>
> >>> I am afraid not.
> >>>
> >>> If you want an updated package, you should be using the latest
> >>> versions, anything else is a best effort and there's no guarantee it
> >>> will be updated going forward.
> >> Nonsense. OpenJDK 11 is an LTS version that is still getting security
> >
> > I Agree with Kevin, and I keep it updated, as long as I'm alive. As noted elsewhere in this thread, I'm negotiating with jdk11 possible future  maintainers they step in as help.
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> If my brain's built-in translator is working correctly, does this mean you're withdrawing your announcement and deprecation? I'd very very much welcome that!

No.

> In my ‚main  side job', I work in the Fedora Server WG. And Java is an extremely important part of the software portfolio for servers. And because of its very extensive backwards compatibility – an important trademark and difference to other popular languages –  Java 11 is basically not dispensable either. And Temurin is not a solution for us because the Fedora guidelines only allow us to install Fedora-built packages. Of course I also see the workload and didn't want to (kind of) demand it before.

You can and should use Temurin, it is the solution. We are not in the
position to maintain 11. The fact that Jiri volunteers his own time is
a different thing than being expected for this to be properly
maintained like we do with the other versions, we won't be able to
rely on that.

> >> updates upstream and, e.g., in Adoptium Temurin (to which the console spam
> >> from the Fedora RPM was actually pointing). It just takes updating the
> >
> > Spam? Is that really so bad? What else would you suggest?
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> I appreciate the message (well, not the message, but the placement). It is, or would be, a very serious infringement of the Fedora Java runtime environment. This cannot be announced early enough and as widely as possible. And because servers are mainly administered via terminal, a large proportion of users get aware of it.

Cheers,
Mario


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