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[Jonas Kalderstam <jonas.ubuntuone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not involved with Puppet. I just linked to them as an example. But
your suggestion doesn't work since the problem is that Java9 is the
default java8-runtime which is installed if you don't have java
installed already.

And until Java9 is released, the default java8-runtime should be
provided by Java8.

We went a different route to work around this:
https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/commit/874c8da6bcb7b227b7451c06e4678924abc93800

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584118

Title:
  16.04 incorrectly installs openjdk-9 to satisfy java8-runtime
  dependency

Status in openjdk-9 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Hi,
  A user recently reported an issue on our bug tracker stating that our package was pulling in openjdk-9 and subsequently crashed when started. This apparently because openjdk-9 is the default choice for java8-runtime, which is quite surprising.

  Now it is technically correct that java9 does provide a java8-runtime,
  but java9 isn't even released yet and should definitely not be the
  default java8-runtime until that time.

  Same bug was reported against puppet here:
  https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/EZ-77

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