Github user garydgregory commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/commons-compress/pull/43
We all know that Java 7 is EOL but that is the required platform currently.
As we have seen in Commons with other components, the IBM JDK sometimes gives
surprising results. It is my opinion that we do loose confidence that all is
well everywhere by omitting building on Oracle's JDK.
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