Bug#706668: mysql-connector-java: FTBFS with openjdk-7

[Niels Thykier]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 pending

On 2013-05-03 08:22, Verica_Lazova.str wrote:
> Package: mysql-connector-java
> Version: 5.1.16-2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> 
> Fails to build with openjdk-7 due to incompatibility with the newer version of
> JDBC (abstract methods need to be overridden).
> Here is the relevant part of the build log.
> 

OpenJDK-7 is not (yet) the default Java, so the package still builds
successfully (hench this is not a serious/RC bug at this time).  That
said it will probably be "soon" anyway.

> [...]
> 
> 
> I propose a patch that fixes this issue as attachment.
> 
> [...]

It appears that a patch has already been committed[1] 10 months ago.
Accordingly I tagged this pending.  I didn't review either, if you have
reason to believe the existing patch is insufficient, please follow up
with more information.

~Niels

[1]
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-java?view=revision&revision=16211