Mainstream distributions, e.g. Ubuntu, now ship OpenJDK 9. OpenJDK 9 adds important features that are useful to developers and could be considered a major development milestone. Thank you for your consideration.
It will be IcedTea 4, not 9. Also IcedTea is not the same thing as OpenJDK so it's not actually ready yet. gnu_andrew has said that it shouldn't be too far away. Bear in mind that Java 9 isn't officially released until September 21st.
Should we open a separate bug for a future Java 10 version of icedtea?
(In reply to Dennis Schridde from comment #2) > Should we open a separate bug for a future Java 10 version of icedtea? No, unless we find any great need, I think we should just look towards the latest (currently 11) rather than keep old versions around. I've heard very little from gnu_andrew lately and he seems quite focused on RHEL, which means Java 7 and 8 only. I don't know whether IcedTea 4 would be Java 9 or 11 or whatever is the latest by the time he finally gets around to it, whenever that will be. In the mean time, an openjdk source package should be added in the next few days.
(In reply to Dennis Schridde from comment #2) > Should we open a separate bug for a future Java 10 version of icedtea? 11 is already available, so I suspect there will be a package skip considering that there is not a huge interface gap between 10 and 11.
How can IcedTea-4 block Libreoffice-7 if even it is not released yet?
I'm not sure we even need to wait on Java if it's possible to disable it.
(In reply to Sam James from comment #6) > I'm not sure we even need to wait on Java if it's possible to disable it. Because there are people who rely on it and a whole part of LibreOffice is otherwise broken.
(In reply to Perfect Gentleman from comment #5) > How can IcedTea-4 block Libreoffice-7 if even it is not released yet? virtual/jdk:11 package.mask does not come with a tracker bug and this was the next best thing available.
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