Bug#976741: Please publish a "debian" version in /usr/share/maven-repo

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 08/12/2020 à 00:32, Louis-Philippe Véronneau a écrit :

> I did see the generic 1.x version and I guess I can use that, but if
> snakeyaml moves to 2.x, all the packages that depend on the 1.x version
> will FTBFS, even if the "breaking" changes didn't affect them and the
> autopkgtests still pass with it.

If snakeyaml moves to a version 2.x, then:

- if the 2.x line is compatible with the 1.x line, the generic version
for the Maven artifacts remains the same (1.x). Packages depending on it
aren't affected.

- if the 2.x is not binary compatible, then:
  * if libyaml-snake-java has few reverse dependencies, we patch them
    and keep the generic version as is.
  * if there are many reverse dependencies, we create a new snakeyaml2
    package with a new generic version (2.x) (as was done with junit and
    junit4)


> I would thus prefer it if there was a "debian" version available, but I
> understand you rationale and won't push further :)

I'd have preferred a 'debian' version for this package too, the 1.x
version was picked for no good reason in this case.

Emmanuel Bourg