Bug#893227: libbluray FTBFS with openjdk-9

Adrian Bunk bunk at debian.org
Wed Jan 23 17:54:42 GMT 2019


Control: severity -1 serious

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 06:14:55AM -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>...
> The schedule for Debian can be seen at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster:
> 
>    -
> 
>    2014-11-09: Distribution codename announced
>    <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00005.html>
>    -
> 
>    2017-06-17: Stretch <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch> is released,
>    and buster becomes testing <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting>
>    -
> 
>    2019-01-12: Transition freeze (announced
>    <https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html>)
>    - 2019-02-12: Soft freeze
>    - 2019-03-12: Full freeze
> 
> So assuming the new libblueray doesn't require changes in
> depending packages we have until Feburary 12 to upload (AND TEST)
> an updated package.

That's wrong in both directions:

None of these dates is about uploads to unstable,
they all refer to when a package must already have
migrated to testing.

It is also not clear why you are referring to February 12,
unless you are planning really invasive changes an upload
more than 10 days before March 12 should be sufficient.

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 05:26:05PM -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>...
> Since openjdk-8 is going to be kept in Buster, I don't think
> we need to keep this bug at RC severity. I'm concerned that keeping
> this bug at RC severity might risk having libbluray being removed
> from testing, which I don't think is in the best interest of our
> users.

Due to popcon (and reverse dependencies) libbluray is a key package
that won't be autoremoved (otherwise it would have been autoremoved
from buster 9 months ago).

A lowered severity only hides the problem, and the later it gets brought
up the fewer changes are permitted for fixing - until the end of February 
you could even upload a new upstream version, but after that it will be
unlikely that this will be approved by the release team.

The libbluray-bdj binary package has no reverse dependencies,
so removing it might be a Plan B if no better option would
be available.

cu
Adrian

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