Bug#750746: jalview: FTBFS with Java 8: package sun.io does not exist

[Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>]

Source: jalview
Version: 2.7.dfsg-3
Severity: important
User: debian-java@lists.debian.org
Usertags: openjdk-8-transition

Hi,

During a rebuild of all Java packages in sid with OpenJDK 8,
this package failed to build with the following error:


    [javac] /«PKGBUILDDIR»/src/jalview/ws/rest/InputType.java:45: error: package sun.io does not exist
    [javac] import sun.io.CharacterEncoding;
    [javac]              ^

 
The full build log is available from:
    http://87.98.165.193/debian/openjdk8-rebuild/logs-failed-jdk8/jalview_2.7.dfsg-3_unstable_jdk8.log

OpenJDK 8 packages are available for testing here:
    http://87.98.165.193/debian/openjdk-8u5-b13/