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

[shirish शिरीष]

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On 02/10/2018, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:
> 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
>

I can help with testing but that's all I can help with :(

I did see in the tracker though that the newer gradle isn't migrating towards
testing due to jgit which I didn't know was a package till I saw it -

tracker.debian.org/gradle

I also saw https://bugs.debian.org/905547 which is a wishlist bug for
getting a new version of jgit also which is one of the blockages of
transitioning to testing.

I am open to testing that as well  . I did see that the recent commits
to jgit-cli and brethen were on 5th august last ,

~/games/eclipse-jgit$ git log
commit 609ea8c723cba1584f75cef8dc8378e9206cd4bd (HEAD -> master,
origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org>
Date:   Thu Aug 16 01:04:37 2018 +0200

    Upload to unstable


and that's -

$ apt-cache policy jgit-cli
jgit-cli:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.7.1-5
  Version table:
     3.7.1-5 100
        100 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages

Looking forward to testing a new version of jgit assuming of course it
doesn't have
any complexities or additional package requirements as the newer
gradle seems to have.

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