debian/changelog

+jcommander (1.71-3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Team upload.
+  * Generate Java 8 bytecode to preserve the backward compatibility
+  * Fixed the Vcs-Git URL
+
+ -- Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>  Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:00:47 +0200
+
 jcommander (1.71-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Team upload.

debian/control

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 11),
                      gradle-debian-helper,
                      maven-repo-helper (>= 1.9)
 Standards-Version: 4.1.5
-Vcs-Git: https://://anonscm.debian.org/java-team/jcommander.git
+Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/jcommander.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/jcommander
 Homepage: http://jcommander.org
 

debian/patches/java8-compatibility.patch

+Description: Preserves the Java 8 compatibility
+Author: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
+Forwarded: not-needed
+--- a/build.gradle
++++ b/build.gradle
+@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
+     testCompile 'org.testng:testng:6.9.13'
+ }
+ 
++compileJava   {
++    sourceCompatibility = '1.8'
++    targetCompatibility = '1.8'
++}
++
+ task sourceJar(type: Jar) {
+     group 'Build'
+     description 'An archive of the source code'

debian/patches/series

 build.gradle.diff
+java8-compatibility.patch