Bug#942814: libhibernate-validator-java: update to 5.3.6 breaks reverse-dependencies

[Paul Gevers]

Hi maintainers,

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 01:26:45 +0200 Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: libhibernate-validator-java
> Version: 5.3.6-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> The update of libhibernate-validator-java to version 5.3.6. broke at
> least pdfsam (#942507) and libspring-java. The new version is incompatible with
> libgeronimo-validation-1.0-spec-java and requires
> libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java.
> 
> In addition libhibernate-validator-java should add classmate.jar to
> its CLASSPATH because it won't work without it.
> 
> Still PDFsam fails to work because libhibernate-validator-java causes
> another exception because of a missing el-api.jar and/or el-impl.jar file on the
> CLASSPATH.
> 
> Some internet research suggests this is a known problem with version
> 5.x but at the moment I don't know if this is a packaging error or
> whether it requires a patch for the affected reverse-dependencies.

Ping. This bug is blocking the migration of libhibernate-validator-java
to testing (bug #953338).

If no solution to this issue can be found, I think we should revert to
the previous version of libhibernate-validator-java.

Paul

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