Extend Java 11 EOL date
johngmyers opened this issue · comments
I request distroless to extend the java11 EOL date of 2023-12-01, preferably to 2024-06-01, near when Debian 11 goes end of life.
The 2023-12-01 date was announced in #1408 on 2023-09-20. This was late in or after some organizations have done their Q4 planning. It does not give much time for a change that warrants a fair amount of testing.
It is not clear why the runway is so short or what benefit distroless gets from cutting support so long before Debian appears to do so.
Didn't this repo switch to debian 12? That's probably the cause here.
I mean I not super attached to the eol date. We can extend Java a bit like the base and static images. Distroless is just a huge build and trimming it makes my life easier.
The current December date is particularly troublesome for us for Java 11. Python and Node aren't an issue for us (that I know of) because Debian 12 didn't drop support for a major version of Python and distroless doesn't tie Node support to Debian.
Extending Java 11 like the base would be much appreciated.
I think we might just solve this by providing java11 from temurin on debian12. similar to #1444
That would also work.