Bug#909905: gradle FTBFS when building with openjdk-11 (needs update to 4.7.0 or upstream patch)

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 01/10/2018 à 19:37, shirish शिरीष a écrit :

> So are we going to have gradle 4.8 in either experimental or unstable soonish.

Unfortunately no. Starting with version 4.5 Gradle requires Kotlin, and
we are nowhere near having Kotlin in Debian. It's more likely we'll
instead patch Gradle 4.4 and fix the Java 11 incompatibilities.


> I'm sure you may have read the freeze time-table which was shared few days ago.
> 
> It would be nice to have all the components in debian tested etc. well
> before freeze.

Sure but this won't happen magically, we need more contributors.

Emmanuel Bourg