debian/changelog

+metro-policy (2.7.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fixed the build failure with Java 11 (Closes: #912357)
+  * Standards-Version updated to 4.2.1
+
+ -- Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>  Fri, 02 Nov 2018 11:21:22 +0100
+
 metro-policy (2.7.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Initial release (Closes: #905278)

debian/control

@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ Build-Depends:
  debhelper (>= 11~),
  default-jdk,
  junit,
+ libactivation-java,
  libistack-commons-java,
  libmaven-bundle-plugin-java,
  libtxw2-java,
  libwoodstox-java,
  maven-debian-helper (>= 2.1)
-Standards-Version: 4.2.0
+Standards-Version: 4.2.1
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/metro-policy.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/metro-policy
 Homepage: https://javaee.github.io/metro-policy/

debian/maven.properties

@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 # maven.test.skip=true
 # project.build.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
 
+atGenerated=false

debian/patches/01-activation-dependency.patch

+Description: Adds the dependency on the Activation Framework to fix the build failure with Java 11.
+ This patch can be removed after upgrading to the version 2.7.4 or higher.
+Author: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
+Forwarded: not-needed
+--- a/pom.xml
++++ b/pom.xml
+@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@
+             <scope>runtime</scope>
+         </dependency>
+         <dependency>
++            <groupId>com.sun.activation</groupId>
++            <artifactId>javax.activation</artifactId>
++            <version>1.2.0</version>
++        </dependency>
++        <dependency>
+             <groupId>junit</groupId>
+             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+             <version>3.8.1</version>

debian/patches/series

+01-activation-dependency.patch