Am 29.05.2018 um 14:00 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg: > Le 29/05/2018 à 13:51, Markus Koschany a écrit : > >> I can't remember. Feel free to try and implement your workaround but >> don't lower the severity of an 100 % RC bug until then. > > This issue matches the definition of an important bug to me, i.e. "a bug > which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without > rendering it completely unusable to everyone". The package works and > achieves its main function, it's just one of its features (the xjc Ant > task) that is broken and affects netbeans.
This issue makes Netbeans fail to build from source which is by Debian's standards always an release critical bug. Netbeans will not be part of Buster as long as the FTBFS has not been rectified. However the bug is not in src:netbeans but in jaxb 2.3.0. The previous version worked perfectly fine with Netbeans hence we can deduce your update introduced the regression which made Netbeans FTBFS. The correct severity is serious because this is a Policy violation. For me it goes without saying now that I would take responsibility for breaking another package and concentrate on fixing it. At least I would not downplay the bug. We are not talking about some random test failure here. Jaxb 2.3.0 did introduce a severe regression and it does not matter if only its xjc Ant task is affected as long as the result is that another package fails to build from source which was prior in perfect shape. It should not be part of testing because of that reason.
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