Re: oracle-jdk17 deletion

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes:

> On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 at 14:25, Adam <adam%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to remove oracle-jdk17. JDK 17 is not supported anymore and we've got JDK 21.
>>
>> If no objection, I will retire it in a week.
>
> I don't use oracle-jdk packages (I use the openjdk versions), so I'm
> not directly affected, but this seems a little aggressive retirement
> given the Oracle "don't use jdk17 after XXX" date was two days ago,
> and Oracle premium support runs for for another 18 months or so (which
> matches the free versions of jdk7 from other vendors)

I agree that this is overly aggressive.  If Oracle just pulled the plug,
I feel like we're a year away from removal.

I object, until there's a posted analysis that there are no programs in
pkgsrc that need 17 (and aren't 1005 ok with 21), and that there are no
users who could be using 17, wihtout being egregiously out of date.

There's another question, which is how much troulbe it's causing for
this to be in pkgsrc.  I really don't remember seeing list traffic about
breaks of such packages and pain dealing with them.