Puppetserver non installable on jessie without backports

Using puppet 5 nightly builds on a base Debian Jessie installation fails to install puppetserver:

root@psick:~# apt-get install puppetserver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
puppetserver : Depends: openjdk-8-jre-headless but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@psick:~#

openjdk-8-jre-headless is available in backports only.