Bug#866845: libidw-java FTBFS: PropertyMapImpl.java:383: error: unmappable character for encoding ASCII

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 3/07/2017 à 11:48, Markus Koschany a écrit :

> So if I understand correctly all pure javahelper packages are safe as
> long as they have defined the encoding already?

Yes, but I'm under the impression that no javahelper based package does
so (a code search on "JH_JAVADOC_OPTS" returns only javatools).


> I don't understand the maven-debian-helper case though. The
> project.build.sourceEncoding in my maven.properties file won't override
> the new default UTF-8 value anymore?

I'm not sure about that. I just know that the command line parameter
overrides the property in pom.xml.

Note that if maven.properties could override the property set by
maven-debian-helper, we would have many cases where maven-debian-helper
sets the encoding to UTF-8, the pom.xml sets the encoding to ISO-8859-1
(but is ignored), and we would have to add the encoding in
debian/maven.properties to ensure it still compiles. That would be
counter-productive since upstream already configured the encoding properly.