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

[Emmanuel Bourg]

On 25/09/2020 13:50, Markus Koschany wrote:

> Why did you upgrade hibernate-validator to version 5.x when
> no other package in Debian requires it? Wouldn't it have been 
> simpler to revert the upgrade instead of creating a separate
> hibernate-validator4 package?

The version 5.x is a prerequisite to upgrade Spring to the next major
release. Also the version 4.x is no longer supported and security issues
are frequently reported. The idea is to use libhibernate-validator4-java
as a transitional package until all reverse dependencies are updated to
use the version 5.x.

Emmanuel Bourg