Bug#873646: RM? FTBFS with Java 9, 1 rdep is RoQA, abandoned upstream

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 29/08/2017 à 20:54, Chris West a écrit :

> [echo] Running Registry tests ...
> [java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: (class: org/apache/commons/modeler/RegistryTestCase, method: suite signature: ()Ljunit/framework/Test;) Illegal type in constant pool
> [java] 	at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
> [java] 	at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:292)
> [java] 	at junit.runner.StandardTestSuiteLoader.load(StandardTestSuiteLoader.java:11)

Hum that's weird, that might be a JDK bug. I guess removing the suite()
method from RegistryTestCase will fix this.


> Please can we just remove it?

In Debian libquartz-java was using it before the version 1.8. In the
wild there are OW2 EasyBeans, Apache Geode and SnappyData still using
it. I have no strong opinion but I lean toward keeping the package just
in case it helps future packaging work.

Emmanuel Bourg