[Android-tools-devel] Bug#925320: Bug#925320: Acknowledgement (android-platform-tools-apksig: apksigner fails to run on OpenJDK 8 due to UnsupportedClassVersionError)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

The "--release 8" fix seems fine, my only concern is that someone needs
to test this, since it is different than what upstream does.  I suppose
that the autopkgtest is complete enough to test this.  I'm not really
aware of whether there are security concerns of compiling with different
source/target/release versions.  Do you know?

.hc

Tiago Daitx:
> Indeed, openjdk-8 is planned to be removed from buster, but any user
> that tries to run apksigner with a java 8 level binary (from openjdk,
> oracle, or other vendors) will be unable to do so. In addition to that
> Debian derivatives might be affected: Ubuntu is keeping openjdk-8
> available for users and to avoid such simply delta I am proposing the
> patch to Debian.
> 
> The early changelog entry related to the "-source 8" change stated
> that this was done to support java 8 level, but it missed the fact
> that it should actually have added "-target 8" at the least. I am
> aiming to fix that with the "--release 8" flag which is the proper way
> to set source/target since OpenJDK 9.
> 
> Please note that the jh_build tool from javatools package has a bug
> that causes this package to currently FTBFS (with or without my change
> as the bug forces -source 7 -target 7 to be used which is incompatible
> with the level 8 source code): https://bugs.debian.org/925617
> 
> Regards,
> Tiago
> 
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 4:52 PM Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Can you tell me more about the use case for this?  my understanding is
>> that openjdk-8 will not be supported in buster.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> Tiago Daitx:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please consider my upload to mentors as a fix for this issue
>>> https://mentors.debian.net/package/android-platform-tools-apksig
>>> https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/android-platform-tools-apksig/android-platform-tools-apksig_0.8-3.dsc
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tiago
>>>
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