Public bug reported:
[SRU Justification]
db5.3 fails to build with openjdk 11 as the default jre because:
- debian/rules hardcodes an obsolete Java standard (1.5; 1.6 is the minimum
currently supported)
- version detection of java versions in the configure script doesn't account
for the possibility of two-digit upstream version numbers.
This makes the package not currently security supportable as of 18.04
release. Since this package is seeded on the desktop image I am not
looking to have this included during the freeze but am making it an SRU
instead.
[Test case]
If the package builds from source and its reverse-dependencies pass their
autopkgtests, this should be sufficient confirmation of a good build.
[Regression potential]
Because we are bumping the java version in this rebuild, there is a possibility
that it will break compatibility with other out-of-archive java implementations
that users are using. This is unlikely; 1.5 is ancient, even precise has 1.6
and trusty has 1.7 as the default. If there is concern about compatibility
with precise, we could peg this to 1.6 instead of using 1.7, but there is no
reasonable expectation that java bindings built on 18.04 will work on 12.04,
and we know that OpenJDK 11 when it is released will break compatibility even
with OpenJDK 8 in some cases which means there will definitely be jars SRUed
for OpenJDK 11 that are not compatible with OpenJDK 6.
** Affects: db5.3 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: In Progress
** Tags: ftbfs
** Changed in: db5.3 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
** Tags added: ftbfs
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db5.3: FTBFS with openjdk 11
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