Comment 9 for bug 1915177

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

The Groovy fix looks fine.

Backporting the Groovy package to Focal also looks fine to me on principle. Even though it is a major upstream version update, the actual functional upstream change is just to enable building against Linux 5.6, and that's what we're fixing here anyway. I also note that the Linux 5.6 fix was already backported to Focal anyway, so there's actually no functional change at all in the backport...

...except for change-download-to-dbip.patch, which was added by Debian in the package in Groovy, and Focal doesn't appear to have it. Backporting from Groovy to Focal would introduce this functional change.

I think this needs further analysis. Does this change fix something that's already completely broken? Or are there use cases that users may be depending on that will break as a result of this change?