debian/changelog

+junit4 (4.12-8) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fixed the build failure with Java 11 (Closes: #912474)
+  * Standards-Version updated to 4.2.1
+
+ -- Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>  Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:14:37 +0100
+
 junit4 (4.12-7) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Team upload.

debian/control

 Source: junit4
 Section: java
 Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
-Uploaders: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
+Uploaders:
+ Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
  Varun Hiremath <varun@debian.org>,
  Ludovic Claude <ludovic.claude@laposte.net>,
  Jakub Adam <jakub.adam@ktknet.cz>,
  Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11), default-jdk, javahelper
-Build-Depends-Indep: default-jdk-doc,
+Build-Depends:
+ debhelper (>= 11),
+ default-jdk,
+ default-jdk-doc,
+ javahelper,
  libhamcrest-java (>= 1.3),
  libhamcrest-java-doc,
  libmaven-javadoc-plugin-java,
  maven-debian-helper (>= 2.2)
-Standards-Version: 4.1.4
+Standards-Version: 4.2.1
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/junit4.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/junit4
 Homepage: http://www.junit.org

debian/maven.properties

+maven.compiler.release=8