* Fabio Valentini:

> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 1:07 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> A question about this which is semi-related to your email.
>>
>> For some C library packages we have Java bindings, eg:
>> https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/java
>>
>> These have been disabled in Fedora for ~2 years, but when they were
>> around they had these BuildRequires:
>>
>>   BuildRequires: java-1.8.0-openjdk
>>   BuildRequires: java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
>>   BuildRequires: jpackage-utils
>>
>> I believe the only requirements are javac, javah, javadoc (optional)
>> and a JVM to run the tests on.
>>
>> Is it possible to keep this going, or would that require a lot of
>> work?  I notice that javah no longer seems to exist.
>>
>> (Note I know almost nothing about how the modern JDK works)
>
> I think you'd probably want to do
>
> 1) switch to java-11-openjdk (it's the default on all currently
> supported Fedora branches)

This means that the built JAR files will be unusable with OpenJDK 8,
though.  Maybe there are still some users left?

Thanks,
Florian
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