Bug#901881: maven: Missing Dependency on default-jdk

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2018, Stuart Pook wrote:

> I didn't want to upgrade to Java-10 either because scala does not appear

FWIW (still not finished, need a proper write-up) I managed
to hack our projects to get them build with either 8 or 10,
using <release>8</release> in maven-compiler-plugin when on
anything newer.

That includes workarounds around bugs in Debian’s OpenJDK
package only patched in Debian’s maven-javadoc-plugin, which
is inaccessible from a regular mvn invocation AFAICT, and
injecting javax.annotations into dependencies… but after
sweat and pain I converted the two most pressing projects,
discovering that stuff uploaded to Maven Central is *also*
built without --release 7 (even if -source 1.7 -target 1.7
is used) and thus java > 8 will soon become a requirement
to build java stuff *anyway* even if targetting 8 for runtime…

☹,
//mirabilos, as I said, still need to write it up properly
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