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There don't seem to be any debian emails about it: https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2019/05/threads.html

The place where you'd want to look is the Debian Package Tracker entry for the source package, openjdk-8.

Here's the URL: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-8

That has the current status of the package, and links to the bug tracker, which is where I'd expect things to appear!

Yeah, Moritz Mühlenhoff really should have stayed a movie critic, and should not touch important debian packages anymore.

That seems an odd place to look, considering this is at the top of the page:

> package is gone

> This package is not in any development repository. This probably means that the package has been removed (or has been renamed). Thus the information here is of little interest ... the package is going to disappear unless someone takes it over and reintroduces it.

So it is an obsolete package?

Debian does not pull things from random Docker containers.

The random Docker containers are using Debian's own packages.

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