RFR: 8212233: javadoc fails on jdk12 with "The code being documented uses modules but the packages defined in $URL are in the unnamed module."

[Martin Buchholz]

Adding Robert Scholte, who may best know if this backport would fix a
problem related to
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MJAVADOC-555

Adding jdk-updates-dev, as suggested at
https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/codereview.html

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:04 AM Aleksey Shipilev <shade at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 2/18/19 6:51 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> > Over in
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2019-February/000452.html
> you
> > volunteered to look at javadoc problems, and this bug is one of them, so
> perhaps you can add it
> > to your list?
>
> Yeah, the test failure I mentioned at jdk-updates-dev@ is the leftover
> from applying your backport.
> I did not manage to test it properly yet before suggesting for jdk11u
> backport.
>
> > I expected this bug to be backported to Oracle jdk11, but there's no
> backport record in JIRA. I
> > don't know why my bug fix apparently does not resolve the serious
> maven-related problems seen in
> > jdk11. My own backport seems to "work", but I don't whether an actual
> important bug is being
> > fixed.
> There is no record for 11u in JIRA, because there is no backport to 11u.
> Replying in JIRA comment is
> not enough, you need to follow this process:
> https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/ -- and,
> given the patch does not apply cleanly to 11u, the additional RFR for 11u.
>

I am trying to follow the process - this thread is the RFR for 11u !