The sad thing is no one was asking Ubuntu to rebuild all the system dependencies against OpenJDK 8. Developers just wanted the package to be available for inst

The sad thing is no one was asking Ubuntu to rebuild all the system dependencies against OpenJDK 8. Developers just wanted the package to be available for installing. The extra icing on the cake? They removed OpenJDK 7 from 16.04 despite it still being supported. :-/