Bug#918705: URL parsing fails with NoSuchMethodError on Java 8

2019-01-08 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 08.01.19 um 14:25 schrieb Timo Kalliomäki: > Package: libhttpclient-java > Version: 4.5.6-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > The parsing functionality under URLEncodedUtils fails when running under Java > 8. > This seems to be due to the return type of

Bug#918705: URL parsing fails with NoSuchMethodError on Java 8

2019-01-08 Thread Timo Kalliomäki
Package: libhttpclient-java Version: 4.5.6-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The parsing functionality under URLEncodedUtils fails when running under Java 8. This seems to be due to the return type of java.nio.ByteBuffer.flip() having changed (covariant), so that the bytecodes of 11 and 8