On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM Kevin Kofler via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > 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 > Fedora package with the fixed point releases from the LTS branch. I understand you know better, but there's no such a thing as upstream LTS. LTS is specifically a downstream effort, it just happens that it makes sense for everyone to align to the same version. You are very welcomed to join the effort and help Jiri or others to keep 11 alive for as long as there's an upstream version of it. Cheers, Mario -- Mario Torre Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat OpenJDK, Java Champion https://keybase.io/neugens 9704 A60C B4BE A8B8 0F30 9205 5D7E 4952 3F65 7898 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@MarioTorre Red Hat GmbH, Registered seat: Werner von Siemens Ring 12, D-85630 Grasbrunn, Germany Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen/Munich, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Ryan Barnhart, Charles Cachera, Michael O'Neill, Amy Ross -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
