Hi Laurens, Thank you for the report. I think this is actually an issue with java-package. The package generated by make-jpkg provides java<n>-runtime[-headless] with n covering the last 3 versions. So for Java 8 it provides java{6,7,8}-runtime but not java5-runtime as required by maven.
We should modify make-jpkg and provide all runtimes since Java 5. Emmanuel Bourg __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.