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Re: Bug#926009: openjdk-11 breaks libreoffice autopkgtests

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On Tue, 2 Apr 2019, Rene Engelhard wrote:

> We as distros can patch it for LibreOffice, but this change breaks LibreOffice out there unless
> patched, and I doubt they will (or will be happy) to add extra stanzas for "Debian", "Ubuntu" or
> whatever else.
> 
> I really believe this should be reverted.

Yes, this is really weird, and…

> > On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, Matthias Klose wrote:

> > > > IMHO correctly so, some of the changes are so far away from the
> > > > freeze policy..
> > > 
> > > pointy comments won't help, because you will see these changes at least in the
> > > first buster security update, so maybe some backports for libreoffice are

… I fail to see how this qualifies for a security update.

Perhaps you’ll wish to revert this change when building for
anything older than bullseye/sid. Sometimes, lies need to
be introduced when backporting (for either stable-security
or bpo) to keep the stability guarantee.

bye,
//mirabilos
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Re: Bug#926009: openjdk-11 breaks libreoffice autopkgtests Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2019-05-27 19:00 +0200

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