Re: Groovy 2.4.16 + Java 11 is broken in debian buster stable
On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:53:14 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> 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.
>
No one is suggesting using force. :-)
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