On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:53:14 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:08:27 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > > >> Backports must not be used to fix bugs in Stable. If groovy from > >> Stable does not work with the openjdk-11 from Stable, then this is a > >> bug in Stable and has to be fixed in Stable. > > > This is indeed a bug in stable. However, any package in testing > > becomes a candidate for stable-backports. > > Sure. But the official stance of Debian is the one I lined out above, by > both the SRMs and the Backports-RMs. > > You must not be forced to install packages from backports just to get a > bug fixed. > > In this case one could argue that the bug in groovy is indeed > release-critical, since it does not work at all. >
No one is suggesting using force. :-)