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Package: ant
Version: 1.10.5-1
Severity: important
The Debian ant package is built with a patch "0013-auto-adjust-target.patch"
that forces the Java target version number to 7. The utterly breaks the
ability to use Debian ant for building Java applications that get wrapped up
in installer packages targeting other operating systems, including non-Debian
Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Specifically, many Mac OS X users apparently
are still being given Java 1.6 as the most recent version certified on their
operating system, and while in theory it's possible for them to move to
Java 1.8 through a download from Oracle, this apparently takes most Apple
customers way outside their comfort zone.
If the javac delivered by our default-jdk actually had such a version
restriction, we'd tell our customers to just cope with it. But it turns out
that even openjdk-11-jdk's javac will take -source and -target assertions
of 1.6 and correctly emit compiled classes that assert major version 50,
which is compatible with Java 1.6. Any package built with ant, however, is
forced to version 7 which results in compiled classes that assert major
version 51, which will not run on Java 1.6!
Please fix ant to not impose a version warp that's more restrictive than
actually required by default-jdk, so that we can continue to use Debian as
a build platform supporting customers who are "stuck" on Java 1.6.
Frankly, I'm not sure having this patch in the Debian package at all is a
good idea. Isn't it better to let javac itself emit an error message if/when
a version actually becomes supported, and let the developer learn about
versions and how to update their ancient assertions when needed rather than
hide this problem?
Regards,
Bdale
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Source: ant
Source-Version: 1.10.5-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ant, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Markus Koschany <[email protected]> (supplier of updated ant package)
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:57:47 +0200
Source: ant
Binary: ant ant-optional ant-doc
Architecture: source
Version: 1.10.5-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Markus Koschany <[email protected]>
Description:
ant - Java based build tool like make
ant-doc - Java based build tool like make - API documentation and manual
ant-optional - Java based build tool like make - optional libraries
Closes: 906785
Changes:
ant (1.10.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload.
* Lower the minimum required source/target level to 1.6 again.
This is acceptable for OpenJDK 11 but must be reverted for OpenJDK 12.
Thanks to Bdale Garbee for the report and patch. (Closes: #906785)
* Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.2.1.
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