Re: oracle-jdk17 deletion

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
> 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 users who could be using 17, wihtout being egregiously out of date.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 is still the lang/openjdk17 package that builds the JDK from source.

> 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.

A further question could be whether we want to include any Oracle
binaries in pkgsrc.

Someone could create a package for Adoptium Temurin JDK 17 to use
instead of the Oracle one.