Bug#912221: jabref: incompatible with openjdk 11

[Markus Koschany]

Am 30.10.18 um 01:15 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg:
> Le 30/10/2018 à 00:41, gregor herrmann a écrit :
> 
>> I guess we need to make sure that we build with openjdk-8.
>> (You know this better than me but I seem to remember that the plan
>> was to keep openjdk-8 in buster for building packages?)
> 
> No please don't built with openjdk-8 if there is a workaround with
> openjdk-11. Building with openjdk-8 is really a last resort solution,
> and very few cases justify its use (see lombok for a good example).

If it is too complicated, too intrusive or takes too much of your time
away I find it OK to build-depend on openjdk-8. Just ensure that
upstream knows about this issue because in the next cycle OpenJDK 8 will
be definitely removed. It is more important that jabref works with
OpenJDK 11 at runtime.

Markus

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