On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:

> revert the use of the --release option in Ant/Maven. That would mean the
> packages built with OpenJDK 10/11 are unlikely to run with OpenJDK 8
> (the binary incompatibility in the ByteBuffer class affects quite a lot
> of code).

Ouch, that would hurt. (Especially considering that 8 is still
a candidate for default-jdk in buster.)

> Someone has a better idea?

Patch code that uses those internal APIs. This is what we do here™
as well, ever since we could require Java 8 at the customers’ sites.
It’s been easy so far as most of the time it was just base64.

bye,
//mirabilos
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