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[stevenschlansker <stevenschlansker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Independent of the "Java is completely broken" issue, I do think the
originally stated case of "ca-certificate-java should support openjdk-8"
is still totally valid.  Installing this package seems to bring in java
7 even when you already have 8 installed.

The current situation is pretty ridiculous.  Java 7 is EOL and not
useful to the majority of users of the most popular languages on the
planet.  Java 8 is only available via an unsupported PPA, and any
attempt to get support (either here, or on the PPA, or via the request
process to get Java 8 added to Trusty) has simply failed.

I hate being that guy whining on the bug tracker, but Ubuntu is really
dropping the ball on this one.  Just look at the request for an official
Java 8 packaging: https://bugs.launchpad.net/trusty-
backports/+bug/1368094  with 750 "+1"s.

The community is trying to work with Ubuntu to highlight this and get it
fixed, but every attempt either gets ignored or closed as invalid...

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1706442

Title:
  please add support for openjdk-8

Status in ca-certificates-java package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Please add support for OpenJDK 8.  I conjecture that this can be done
  by adding the relevant packages to the postinst script (see links).

  1)
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  2)
  $ apt-cache policy ca-certificates-java
  ca-certificates-java:
    Installed: 20130815ubuntu1
    Candidate: 20130815ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 20130815ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3-4) Cannot update openjdk-8 due to unmet dependencies.

  $ sudo apt-get upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages have been kept back:
    openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jdk-headless openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

  $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   openjdk-8-jre-headless : Depends: ca-certificates-java but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

  $ aptitude why-not ca-certificates-java
  i   ca-certificates-java   Depends  openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7~u3-2.1.1~pre1-1
                                      ) | java6-runtime-headless                  
  p A openjdk-8-jre-headless Provides java6-runtime-headless                      
  p A openjdk-8-jre-headless Breaks   ca-certificates-java (< 20160321~)

  Links:
  * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851667
  * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775775
  * https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-java/trunk/ca-certificates-java/debian/postinst.in?r1=19012&r2=19013

  This is the first Ubuntu bug report I have filed.  Please excuse any
  bureaucratic errors I may have made.

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