Bug#888270: Oracle's naming scheme has changed with Java 1.9 breaking make-jpkg

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard j.deboynepollard-newsgroups at ntlworld.com
Wed Jan 24 13:02:04 UTC 2018


Package: java-package
Version: 0.56

$ make-jpkg serverjre-9.0.1_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz 
Creating temporary directory: /tmp/make-jpkg.T2DwKXL7lO
Loading plugins: /usr/share/java-package/common.sh
/usr/share/java-package/javase.sh /usr/share/java-package/jdk-doc.sh
/usr/share/java-package/jdk.sh /usr/share/java-package/jre.sh
/usr/share/java-package/oracle-jdk-doc.sh /usr/share/java-package/oracle-jdk.sh
/usr/share/java-package/oracle-jre.sh

Detected Debian build architecture: amd64
Detected Debian GNU type: x86_64-linux-gnu

No matching packaging method was found for serverjre-9.0.1_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz.
Please make sure you are using a tar.gz or a self-extracting archive
Removing temporary directory: done
$

This is because Oracle has changed the naming scheme, changing the prefix from
"server-jre" to "serverjre", changing the format of the version number, adding a
"_bin", and changing a separator from minus to underscore.



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