Feature changed by: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Feature #317761, revision 2 Title: Provide java 8 packages Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Java 8 was released in 2014-03; Oracle will remove normal free support of Java 7 in 2015-03. Currently we have only packages for Java 7; if you want Java 8, you have to wrangle with rpms from Oracle (see also https://features.opensuse.org/314729). Since we apparently can't redristribute Oracle's rpms, can we either create or own packages (it's nearly all from OpenJDK anyway) or create packages that pull in Oracle's and configure them? + Relations: + - Include oracle java JRE installer rpm in non-oss repo (feature/id: + https://features.opensuse.org/314729) + - java development toolchain (feature/id: + https://features.opensuse.org/310346) + - OBS project with Java 8 packages (obs/package: + http://software.opensuse.org/package/java-1_8_0-sun) + Business case (Partner benefit): + openSUSE.org: Sometime in the future (2015 or 2016) users will want to + run Java8 programs. Having to jump through Oracle's hoops will make it + hard for them to do this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/317761