Some time ago, I started an effort to track API (and ABI) breakages in OpenJDK releases: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094780 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095309 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095328 Is something like this useful? These reports were based on a database which contains all Java method/class/field references from Java class files contained in Fedora RPMs. This means that once we know about a removal and have written the required query, reports can be automated. There is also a weird form of static linking (copying of JAR files into other JAR files): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098237 I think we discussed this before, but the discussion never came to a real conclusion. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
