[fedora-java] Tracking OpenJDK API breakages, static linking

[Florian Weimer]

Some time ago, I started an effort to track API (and ABI) breakages in
OpenJDK releases:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094780
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095309
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095328

Is something like this useful?

These reports were based on a database which contains all Java
method/class/field references from Java class files contained in Fedora
RPMs.  This means that once we know about a removal and have written the
required query, reports can be automated.

There is also a weird form of static linking (copying of JAR files into
other JAR files):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098237

I think we discussed this before, but the discussion never came to a
real conclusion.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security