Bug#882525: netbeans FTBFS with jaxb 2.3.0

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 29/05/2018 à 14:15, Markus Koschany a écrit :

> This issue makes Netbeans fail to build from source which is by Debian's
> standards always an release critical bug. Netbeans will not be part of
> Buster as long as the FTBFS has not been rectified. However the bug is
> not in src:netbeans but in jaxb 2.3.0. The previous version worked
> perfectly fine with Netbeans hence we can deduce your update introduced
> the regression which made Netbeans FTBFS. The correct severity is
> serious because this is a Policy violation.
> 
> For me it goes without saying now that I would take responsibility for
> breaking another package and concentrate on fixing it. At least I would
> not downplay the bug. We are not talking about some random test failure
> here. Jaxb 2.3.0 did introduce a severe regression and it does not
> matter if only its xjc Ant task is affected as long as the result is
> that another package fails to build from source which was prior in
> perfect shape. It should not be part of testing because of that reason.

Well, I disagree with your analysis but since it seems you are having a
bad day I'm not going to argue and annoy you further with this issue.
I'm just asking for the severity to remain below RC until the Java 9 fix
migrates to testing.