Bug#874646: RM? FTBFS with Java 9, no rdeps, idle upstream

[Chris West]

Source: libnetx-java
Version: 5
Severity: wishlist
User: debian-java at lists.debian.org
Usertags: default-java9

This package fails to build with default-jdk pointing to openjdk-9-jdk.
The wiki has some common problems and their solutions:
https://wiki.debian.org/Java/Java9Pitfalls

The problem would probably be easy to fix, however the package does not
appear to have had any love at all in 7+ years.


Last upstream commit was around 14 years ago. Last comment on a ticket
was around 7 years ago; the ticket wasn't resolved. Last release was 14
years ago.

I cannot find any rdeps, and the package appears to be a library. There
is some indication that people might want to use it interactively, i.e.
not as a library. I cannot find any real examples of anything doing
this?

Can we RM it?


Build log:

    [javac] warning: [options] target value 1.4 is obsolete and will be removed in a future release
    [javac] XXX: totally hacking the target version
    [javac] /build/libnetx-java-0.5/src/nanoxml/XMLElement.java:294: error: as of release 5, 'enum' is a keyword, and may not be used as an identifier
    [javac]         Enumeration enum = this.entities.keys();
    [javac]                     ^




Cheers,
Chris.