Fwd: #897945 still present/breaks with Java 8
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Subject: #897945 still present/breaks with Java 8
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:40:42 +0200
From: Per Lundberg <per.lundberg@hibox.tv>
To: 897945@bugs.debian.org
CC: pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, Markus Koschany
<apo@debian.org>
FWIW, version 1.4.2-1 works correctly with openjdk-11-jdk version
11.0.2+7-1, but it _does not_ work correct any more with Java 8
(openjdk-8-jdk version 8u191-b12-2)
This worked correctly with 1.3.9-1 after downgrading the libnb-*-java
packages as suggested by Ben - visualvm worked fine on Java 8 with this
combination of packages.
So, we should either:
- Reopen the bug and fix the problem (likely by compiling visualvm with
openjdk-8, which should make it work on newer JDK versions also)
- Accept the breakage and indicate this somehow, preferably in the
package metadata. (I don't know if we can use dpkg dependencies in this
case? It's perfectly legal to have both OpenJDK 11 and 8 _installed_ on
a machine; it's just that the latter is unusable with visualvm from now on.)
Because the resolution here is not perfectly clear, I will refrain from
just reopening the bug until it has been discussed a bit more.
Best regards,
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Per
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