Bug#805228: Bug#806630: libnative-platform-java: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (mh_installjar fails)

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 20/07/16 at 22:31 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 20/07/2016 à 21:47, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> 
> > So, it would make sense to fix that bug on the maven-repo-helper side, rather
> > than require changes to each of those packages individually.
> 
> Thank you for investigating this Lucas. Please do not start a mass bug
> filing for these packages though, they will just end up merged in the
> maven-repo-helper bug since we aren't going to close them one by one anyway.

Sure.

> I'm not really happy to see this class of issue marked as serious for
> stretch, it's not reasonable to raise the severity and risk an auto
> removal if "dpkg-buildpackage -A" fails but not "dpkg-buildpackage".
> This is just a minor convenience to enable source-only uploads (which
> aren't even mandatory!).
 
#830997 is a better place to voice such concerns.

Lucas