On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 12:06:42AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 12:56:21PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > > > The Spring framework is a very fine but > > also complex web framework. We use many parts of it as > > build-dependencies for other packages. I don't believe that a serious > > Java developer will build web applications with our Spring package, and > > a look into packages-to-support seems to confirm my suspicion. I would > > upload what has already been fixed and then follow Stretch. > > > Your mention of packages-to-support caused me to go look, where I found > that libspring-java is not listed. That makes me think that it was > mistakenly added to dla-needed.txt. Given that it should not have been > listed in the first place, that supports wrapping up and uploading the > work that I have done up to this point without going any further. > Emilio and Mike pointed out to me in IRC that I was misunderstanding the role of packages-to-support in LTS. Thanks to them for explaining the situation to me.
That said, I'll still go ahead with your recommendation. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez