On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 01:21:16PM +0100, Peter Boy Uni wrote: > > Indeed. In f42 all older jdks 17-8 will be gone. Until EOL of f41, I will do my best to keep it alive. If you will move to Temurins in meantime (the repository is already available) better for everybody I think. > > I guess, that’s really a bad decision. > > Currently, Jakarta EE 10 - a core part of the Java universe – is the current release (unless I missed the final EE 11 release announcement) and is specified for Java SE 11 & 17. And we are going to remove just these versions in F42? > > And Wildfly – part of our own software family – says "You need Java (at least version 11, and preferably 17) and Maven installed on your machine …“ [1] (Link prominently on the landing page). And we are going to remove just these versions in F42? > > That seems pretty crazy to me. > > And wouldn't it perhaps make sense to ask our users beforehand or at least analyze the downloads to see what the actual demand is? Regardless of user needs, the problem here is lack of maintainership resources. If nobody steps up to maintain old versions of Java, no amount of "user requests" are gonna keep those packages viable. Nb. I'm partly affected, as I run my home automation on an old OpenHAB1, requiring Java 1.8.0. I did not have time to port my configuration to newer openhab versions. -- Tomasz .. oo o. oo o. .o .o o. o. oo o. .. Torcz .. .o .o .o .o oo oo .o .. .. oo oo o.o.o. .o .. o. o. o. o. o. o. oo .. .. o. -- _______________________________________________ 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
