Bug#912549: icedtea-web FTBFS with OpenJDK 11

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:25:06PM +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> On 13/03/2019 21:30, Markus Koschany wrote:
> 
> >> please look at the new upstream 1.7.2 and 1.8 releases.

May be that's sensible for Buster+1

> > In https://bugs.debian.org/855686 Emmanuel wrote that icedtea-web will
> > be removed. I don't have a strong opinion in this case. If Michael's
> > workaround works, why not. However I think it is too late now for new
> > upstream releases as doko seems to imply.
> > 
> > Please note there are several other RC issues that are marked as pending
> > but I believe the "fix" is to remove the package from Debian.
> 
> FYI I'm working on a fix, I plan to upload it next week if it works, or
> the Michael's patch if it doesn't.

Thanks a lot.  We have simply several rdepends of this package which
would be really hard if they get lost.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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