Re: Groovy 2.4.16 + Java 11 is broken in debian buster stable
Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:08:27 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
>> Backports must not be used to fix bugs in Stable. If groovy from
>> Stable does not work with the openjdk-11 from Stable, then this is a
>> bug in Stable and has to be fixed in Stable.
> This is indeed a bug in stable. However, any package in testing
> becomes a candidate for stable-backports.
Sure. But the official stance of Debian is the one I lined out above, by
both the SRMs and the Backports-RMs.
You must not be forced to install packages from backports just to get a
bug fixed.
In this case one could argue that the bug in groovy is indeed
release-critical, since it does not work at all.
Grüße,
Sven.
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