I have also proposed it as a merge request in salsa. The url is
https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/jtreg/merge_requests/1
I am still getting used to salsa and packages in git, hopefully I got
the merge request right. And let me know if the it is any
better/easier for you if I do it through
Please consider the following debdiff patch to fix this issue.
diff -Nru jtreg-4.2-b13/debian/changelog jtreg-4.2-b13/debian/changelog
--- jtreg-4.2-b13/debian/changelog 2018-08-02 04:16:44.0 -0300
+++ jtreg-4.2-b13/debian/changelog 2018-11-01 02:36:28.0 -0300
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
Package: jtreg
Version: 4.2-b13-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
openjdk-9 introduced a few api changes that result in runtime errors when
trying to run the java classes under openjdk 8 (or earlier) even when
-source/-target are properly set.
The fix is to build such code using the new
