Bug#673276: lintian: please add check to detect incompatible java bytecode versions
James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com> writes:
> Its possible to get into the situation where bytecode is generated from
> source code that is not backwards compatible - javac by default will
> generate bytecode that is only forwards compatible.
> To ensure that java libraries are compatible with all versions of Java
> in the archive, it would be great to have a lintian check which warnings
> if the minimum bytecode version is exceeded - I think this should be
> Java 5.
Shouldn't it be Java 6 at this point? Debian doesn't have Java 5 in
unstable and testing any more, and it sounds like Ubuntu isn't retaining
Java 5 either.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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