diff -Nru stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/changelog stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/changelog
--- stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/changelog	2018-07-24 14:51:01.000000000 +0000
+++ stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/changelog	2018-11-05 21:16:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+stax-ex (1.7.8-3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Team upload.
+  * Fixed the build failure with Java 11 (Closes: #912351)
+  * Standards-Version updated to 4.2.1
+
+ -- Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>  Mon, 05 Nov 2018 22:16:31 +0100
+
 stax-ex (1.7.8-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Team upload.
diff -Nru stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/control stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/control
--- stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/control	2018-07-24 14:47:30.000000000 +0000
+++ stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/control	2018-11-05 21:10:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@
  javahelper,
  junit4,
  libactivation-java,
+ libjaxb-api-java,
  libmaven-bundle-plugin-java,
  maven-debian-helper (>= 1.5)
-Standards-Version: 4.1.5
+Standards-Version: 4.2.1
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/stax-ex.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/stax-ex
 Homepage: https://javaee.github.io/metro-stax-ex/
diff -Nru stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/patches/01-jaxb-dependency.patch stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/patches/01-jaxb-dependency.patch
--- stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/patches/01-jaxb-dependency.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/patches/01-jaxb-dependency.patch	2018-11-05 21:15:46.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Description: Adds the missing dependency on JAXB to build with Java 11
+Author: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
+Forwarded: no
+--- a/pom.xml
++++ b/pom.xml
+@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@
+             <version>1.0-2</version>
+         </dependency>
+         <dependency>
++            <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
++            <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
++            <version>debian</version>
++        </dependency>
++        <dependency>
+             <groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
+             <artifactId>activation</artifactId>
+             <version>1.1</version>
diff -Nru stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/patches/series stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/patches/series
--- stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/patches/series	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ stax-ex-1.7.8/debian/patches/series	2018-11-05 21:10:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+01-jaxb-dependency.patch