Bug#903125: exec-maven-plugin: FTBFS in stretch (expected:<[mvn] --version> but was:<['mvn'] --version>)

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, Markus Koschany wrote:

> Since there is also a simple workaround for
> stable and oldstable (disabling the tests), I am going to lower the
> severity to important.

Please don't do that sort of thing.

A package is considered to have a FTBFS bug, serious and RC, if the
exit status of dpkg-buildpackage is > 0, indicating error, for
whatever reason which is not the fault of the person building the
package (including of course failing the tests).

If you believe severities of FTBFS bugs should be lower than serious
in case it's the tests the ones to fail, then please make a proposal
to make all FTBFS bugs of "grave" severity as a general rule, then
and only then it would make sense to downgrade from grave to serious.

Thanks.