Hi tony, Am 28.01.2018 um 17:57 schrieb tony mancill: > Hi Debian Java, > > I'm working on a package that depends on javacc via the > javacc-maven-plugin. The toolchain is broken at runtime and there is > also a FTBFS bug for javacc-maven-plugin [0], both of which appear > related to the the upload of jtb 1.4.12 [1]. > > First, I'd like to politely ask why the new version of jtb without an > update to javacc-maven-plugin, when that's its only r-dep in the > archive. Is jtb used in some other context that required the new > version? Or maybe the jtb update is the first step in updating the > toolchain? > > But primarily I'd like to know what efforts are in progress and how I > might help. Do we need both new javacc and javacc-maven-plugin > versions? Or can the existing versions be patched to work with the > newer jtb? In addition to the jbibtex package I'm working on, the FTBFS > for javacc-maven-plugin is going to transitively affect a number of > other packages. I suggest to reassign the FTBFS bugs that were caused by the update to jtb and then mark our packages as affected. For once we can't blame anyone from the team. :) I have no idea what exactly caused this regression and hope Ludovico, the maintainer of jtb, can chime in here. Regards, Markus
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