Bug#925533: libspring-java: stopped building libspring-jms-java and libspring-messaging-java

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 12:37:17PM +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> > (srly?  Using dh -N instead of removing the packages from d/control?!…).
> 
> Yes, so that it’s easier to bring them back when they’re unbroken.

But that doesn't help anything.

You removed two packages because a dependency of them was RC buggy,
making other packages uninstallable because of this.

> > Anyway, this also wasn't mentioned in the changelog...
> 
> It was, indirectly:
> 
>   * Disable jasperreports support since it is RC-buggy.
>   * Don’t build against libreactor-core-java since it depends on RC-
>     buggy openhft.

We are in freeze, changelogs are read by people who don't always know
what this thing is.  Reading that I would never suspect that binaries
packages have been removed; please try to be more explicit and lengthy
in your changelogs.

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