Using latest version with Android, results in broken build

[smarek]

# gradle clean assemble -S --scan
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Type without superclass: module-info
        at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument(Preconditions.java:191)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.desugar.DefaultMethodClassFixer.visit(DefaultMethodClassFixer.java:80)
        at org.objectweb.asm.ClassVisitor.visit(ClassVisitor.java:113)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.desugar.InterfaceDesugaring.visit(InterfaceDesugaring.java:90)
        at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.accept(ClassReader.java:621)
        at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.accept(ClassReader.java:500)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.desugar.Desugar.desugarClassesInInput(Desugar.java:475)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.desugar.Desugar.desugarOneInput(Desugar.java:362)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.desugar.Desugar.desugar(Desugar.java:315)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.desugar.Desugar.main(Desugar.java:681)

Diagnosed with task :lint

> Task :lint 
Error processing /home/user/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.joda/joda-convert/2.0/a18cac1a17a926b60485d9f5bf0dfff000e2d079/joda-convert-2.0.jar:module-info.class: broken class file?
Error processing /home/user/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.joda/joda-convert/2.0/a18cac1a17a926b60485d9f5bf0dfff000e2d079/joda-convert-2.0.jar:module-info.class: broken class file?
Error processing /home/user/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.joda/joda-convert/2.0/a18cac1a17a926b60485d9f5bf0dfff000e2d079/joda-convert-2.0.jar:module-info.class: broken class file?
Error processing /home/user/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.joda/joda-convert/2.0/a18cac1a17a926b60485d9f5bf0dfff000e2d079/joda-convert-2.0.jar:module-info.class: broken class file?
Error processing /home/user/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.joda/joda-convert/2.0/a18cac1a17a926b60485d9f5bf0dfff000e2d079/joda-convert-2.0.jar:module-info.class: broken class file?
Error processing /home/user/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.joda/joda-convert/2.0/a18cac1a17a926b60485d9f5bf0dfff000e2d079/joda-convert-2.0.jar:module-info.class: broken class file?

Removing the files does not fix the issue.
Using Gradle identification:

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Gradle 4.6
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Build time:   2018-02-28 13:36:36 UTC
Revision:     8fa6ce7945b640e6168488e4417f9bb96e4ab46c

Groovy:       2.4.12
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.9 compiled on February 2 2017
JVM:          1.8.0_151 (Oracle Corporation 25.151-b12)
OS:           Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 amd64

Update: I filed issue with Google Android Gradle support, see here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/74428304

[jodastephen]

Android should have solved this months ago. Anyway, you now have the option to use the "classic" variant of Joda-Convert v2.0.1:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.joda</groupId>
  <artifactId>joda-convert</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.1</version>
  <classifier>classic</classifier>
</dependency>

[smarek]

Thank you! I've verified the fix, and it's working correctly, let's see what Google tracker will make of this.

For documentation, only way to include "classifier" in Gradle build dependencies specification is this

dependencies {
    implementation group: 'org.joda', name: 'joda-convert', version: '2.0.1', classifier: 'classic'
}