On 19.09.18 10:41, Leandro Papi via arch-general wrote:
The fact that Java 10 replaces Java 9 is a call made by Oracle, as described in their roadmap (https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html) [...]Java SE 9 was a non‑LTS release and immediately superseded by Java SE 10 (also non‑LTS), Java SE 10 in turn is immediately superseded by Java SE 11[...]
What you describe here is not “Java” (which is a specification) and also not OpenJDK but only Oracle JDK. It is a policy of the Oracle JDK implementation but has nothing to do with Java itself. The OpenJDK implementation of Java does not use anything like LTS, there will only be the latest version which is a new one every six month (since OpenJDK 9). Since the Oracle JDK is not in the official Arch Linux repos but only the OpenJDK there is no need to talk about LTS on this mailing list at all. Regards, Olli