debian/changelog

+saaj (1.4.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fixed the build failure with Java 11 (Closes: #912352)
+  * Standards-Version updated to 4.2.1
+
+ -- Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>  Fri, 02 Nov 2018 11:47:56 +0100
+
 saaj (1.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Fixed the OSGi metadata

debian/control

@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ Build-Depends:
  debhelper (>= 11),
  default-jdk,
  junit4,
+ libactivation-java,
  libbuild-helper-maven-plugin-java,
  libmaven-bundle-plugin-java,
  maven-debian-helper (>= 2.1)
-Standards-Version: 4.1.5
+Standards-Version: 4.2.1
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/saaj.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/saaj
 Homepage: https://javaee.github.io/javaee-spec/

debian/patches/02-activation-dependency.patch

+Description: Adds the dependency on the Activation Framework to fix the build failure with Java 11.
+Author: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
+Forwarded: not-needed
+--- a/pom.xml
++++ b/pom.xml
+@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@
+ 
+     <dependencies>
+         <dependency>
++            <groupId>com.sun.activation</groupId>
++            <artifactId>javax.activation</artifactId>
++            <version>1.2.0</version>
++        </dependency>
++        <dependency>
+             <groupId>junit</groupId>
+             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+             <version>4.12</version>

debian/patches/series

 01-java10-compatibility.patch
+02-activation-dependency.patch