Package: openjdk-8 Version: 8u181-b13-1~deb9u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
The Debian patch makes a FreetypeScaler native code create a global reference to the FileFont object whose scaler it is. The global reference would be removed when FreetypeScaler.dispose() is run, but that only happens after the FileFont becomes garbage. Which it can't become because the global reference keeps it alive even after all other references to the font have expired. I asked about this patch earlier on the debian-java mailing list (https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2018/10/msg00002.html, demo program included) and Florian Weimer spotted that the same patch had been submitted upstream: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6761791 According to the notes in that bug report, the global references change was unnecessary in the first place. And the problem has had a fix upstream since Java 7. Seeing as the patch is both unnecessary with Java 8 and actively harmful, please remove it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.13.16-100.fc25.x86_64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect
