control: tags -1 upstream

Hi Chris,

thanks for your bug report!

On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 09:02:15PM +0100, Chris West wrote:
> This package fails to build with default-jdk pointing to openjdk-9-jdk.
[...]
> An automated tool has decided that this package will build fine if the
> -source and -target options are changed to 1.6; no additional changes
> are required. 

ic.

> ant and Maven are supposed to do this for you, and I've tried to check
> that this package is not using ant or Maven correctly, but I might have
> messed up.

upstream's Makefile.config has this line, which I think is to blame here:

Makefile.config:JFLAGS     := -g -source 1.5 -target 1.5 -Xlint

Shall I ask upstream to drop these options entirely, or does one need to
specify them?

Will Java 9 will be the default for Buster?


-- 
cheers,
        Holger

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