debian/changelog

+jabref (3.8.2+ds-8) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add runtime dep on jaxb and update wrapper script for openjdk 11
+    (Closes: #912221)
+
+ -- tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:54:56 -0700
+
 jabref (3.8.2+ds-7) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Add build-dep on libjsonp-java to builds against antlr4 version 4.6

debian/control

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          libhttpclient-java,
          libhttpmime-java,
          libjava-string-similarity-java,
+         libjaxb-java,
          libjempbox-java,
          libjgoodies-common-java (>= 1.8.1),
          libjgoodies-forms-java (>= 1.9.0),

debian/jabref-wrapper

@@ -6,11 +6,16 @@
 # We need a java8 runtime (at least)
 find_java_runtime java8
 
-JAVA_VERSION=$(run_java -version 2>&1 | grep ' version ' | awk '{print $3}')
-if ! ( echo "$JAVA_VERSION" | grep -q '1.8.0' ) ; then
+MAJOR_JAVA_VERSION=$(run_java -version 2>&1 | grep ' version ' | awk '{print $3}' | cut -f1 -d'.' | cut -c2-)
+if ( test $MAJOR_JAVA_VERSION -ge 9 ) ; then
     # We need some options to start this version on openjdk9 and later
     # See http://discourse.jabref.org/t/cannot-start-jabref-3-7-3-6-using-java-9-on-ubuntu-16-04/361/8
-    JABREF_JAVA_OPTS=${JABREF_JAVA_OPTS-"--add-modules=java.se.ee --add-opens=java.desktop/java.awt=ALL-UNNAMED"}
+    JABREF_JAVA_OPTS=${JABREF_JAVA_OPTS-"--add-opens=java.desktop/java.awt=ALL-UNNAMED"}
+
+    # But java.se.ee only works for Java 9 and Java 10
+    if ( test $MAJOR_JAVA_VERSION -lt 11 ) ; then
+        JABREF_JAVA_OPTS="${JABREF_JAVA_OPTS} --add-modules=java.se.ee"
+    fi
 fi
 
 find_jars \
@@ -32,6 +37,7 @@ find_jars \
 	httpcore-nio \
 	httpmime \
 	java-string-similarity \
+	jaxb-runtime \
 	jempbox \
 	jgoodies-common \
 	jgoodies-forms \