Bug#923284: Seemingly miscompiles with jdk-11

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 12:40 +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 26/02/2019 à 12:22, Sjoerd Simons a écrit :
> 
> > ASM7 mode seems to have been introduced in the gradle v5.x series.
> > Not
> > sure if it makes sense for buster to upgrade to that (I really
> > don't
> > know much about java, so no idea about the impact)?
> 
> We can't upgrade to Gradle 5 unfortunately, not until Kotlin is
> packaged
> (#892842). This will be a key issue in the next development cycle.
> 
> 
> > That said making all gradle dependencies target pre-Java
> > 11  probably
> > doens't scale either?
> 
> If it's just the Gradle dependencies it's doable, and the severity of
> the bug can be downgraded because the issue only appears if the
> dependencies are rebuilt. If the issue also appears when project
> dependencies use Java 11 this is a more important issue.

Right it seems to be the following list:
bsh
libjaxp1.3-java
xml-commons-external

So not as bad as i worried; But i'm not sure more stuff may come out of
the woodwork when building things that uses gradle.

-- 
Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at debian.org>