Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Hi Gábor,
>
>>> there are a few packages now that require Java 9, such as
>>> java-eclipse-jdt-compiler-apt (that I’m currently packaging).
>>>
>>> We should aim to use openjdk9 as the default JDK.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>
>> Do you think that aiming for openjdk11 directly is too much?
>> 9 is not supported, but 11 will be supported until 2026.
>>
>> For further information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history
>
> Good point.  Let’s use openjdk11 then.

From this page <https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page>, the
latest icedtea is for openjdk 8. Does this mean that we have to patch
icedtea to build openjdk 11?