[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8331730: [8u] GHA: update sysroot for cross builds to Debian bullseye

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 7 May 2024, Zdenek Zambersky wrote:

>> On Mon, 6 May 2024, Zdenek Zambersky wrote:
>> 
>> > Not sure why arches disappeared, but
>> > turns out that `buster` soon reaches end of LTS support
>> 
>> LTS is not available for all architectures, ELTS for even less. (And
>> backports are not even available for LTS.)
>
>It is still strange that architectures were only removed from `buster`
>repo recently. (It has been in LTS for a long time)

buster went EOL on 2022-09-10 and entered LTS back then.
LTS uses the same debian-security repos as normal security
updates but is only available for a limited set of architectures;
the others have stayed present but frozen, no longer updated.

But with the bookworm release and the t64 transition in sid,
mirrors ran out of disc space, so the frozen parts of buster
(anything other than the debian-security part for LTS arches)
have been copied to archive.d.o, then the buster parts for
nōn-LTS arches have been removed from the main mirror tree,
and shortly after 2024-06-30 when LTS will end, the remnants
will be removed from the main tree.

Unfortunately, this was a bit uncoordinated and the announcement,
while present, was not as clear as it could have been and did not
come sufficiently ahead of time. The relevant teams got sufficient
responses from irritated users already, so I hope they’ll improve
the next time ;-)

bye,
//mirabilos
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