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

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 06/08/2019 à 15:09, Santiago Vila a écrit :

> 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)

If the release managers knowingly let the issue slip into the release
(because an RC issue was already reported at the time of the release) I
don't think it's worth bothering them again with it.

If a build issue appeared *after* the release, due to a regression
caused by a point release, then yes I think the issue is worth reporting
(but I wouldn't bother reporting minor test failures that can be easily
skipped to rebuild from sources).

Emmanuel Bourg