Bug#934032: libjaxen-java: FTBFS in stretch (failing tests, IllegalArgumentException)

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 02:01:27PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 06/08/2019 à 12:45, Santiago Vila a écrit :
> 
> > Dear maintainer:
> > 
> > I tried to build this package in stretch but it failed:
> 
> Hi Santiago,
> 
> I'm not sure to understand why you are reporting a test failure in
> oldstable. This is a duplicate of #909216 which was fixed in buster.
> Personally I don't think it's important enough to fix it in stretch.

In a general sense, the DFSG requires that packages build in the same
distribution as they are present, so we can't fix a FTBFS in stretch
(still a supported distribution) by fixing the bug only in buster.

Release Policy says that packages in stretch must build in stretch and
without failure. Because the tests are part of the build, their failure
counts as a build failure.

Do you think I should ask Release Managers before reporting more bugs
like this one? (I only found a handful of them)

Thanks.