Bug#918705: URL parsing fails with NoSuchMethodError on Java 8

[Markus Koschany]

Am 08.01.19 um 14:25 schrieb Timo Kalliomäki:
> Package: libhttpclient-java
> Version: 4.5.6-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The parsing functionality under URLEncodedUtils fails when running under Java 8.
> This seems to be due to the return type of java.nio.ByteBuffer.flip() having
> changed (covariant), so that the bytecodes of 11 and 8 are not compatible.

Hello,

Java 8 is not supported at runtime in Buster. We strongly recommend to
switch to OpenJDK 11.

Regards,

Markus

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