Bump Java 8 version to something more recent

We take the currently used Java 8 version from a snapshot from 2019. That's pretty old and missing a bunch of security fixes. We should pick up a newer version.

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Whare are we using Java 8? We have already switched to Java 11 for the Moz stuff

Pier Angelo Vendrame (@pierov):

Pier Angelo Vendrame commented:

Whare are we using Java 8? We have already switched to Java 11 for the Moz stuff

I don't know to be honest. Maybe for signing the apks with a debug key? See the pre_pkginst step in the Android target in rbm.conf for where you fetch that old Java 8 at least.

Maybe it can just go? If so, even better.

Whare are we using Java 8? We have already switched to Java 11 for the Moz stuff

Hmm, yes, we use the openjdk-11-jdk-headless package for the geckoview build. However it looks like we don't install it when building the other components, so we might still be using the old version there.

I think we should add openjdk-11-jdk-headless and openjdk-11-jre-headless to var/deps on Android, remove var/pre_pkginst and see if everything still builds.

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Done... in several steps.

But with 14.0a2 we're using Java 17 only in bookworm.

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