Bug#1013959: Upgrade package to latest upstream version

[Jérôme Charaoui]

Package: mockito
Version: 2.23.0-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear maintainer,

Please upgrade mockito to the latest version, 4.6.1.

The currently packaged version, 2.23.0, was released in 2018 and the
upstream project has released many dozens of updates since then.

In particular, the current version is missing the JUnit Jupiter
extension which is needed to runs the testsuite for a project I'm
currently packaging in Debian, logstash-logback-encoder.

Thank you!

-- Jerome

[Markus Koschany]

Post by Jérôme Charaoui
Dear maintainer,
Please upgrade mockito to the latest version, 4.6.1.

Hello,

The latest 4.x series introduces many breaking changes and not all reverse-
dependencies are ready for that. As long as projects continue to use 2.x it
would require some effort from our side to port them to newer mockito versions.
I don't think this is feasible at the moment. We could think about packaging
4.x for experimental in the future or even a new mockito4 source package but
that's not a priority for me.

Regards,

Markus

[Thomas Uhle]

Control: block 1099353 by -1

Dear maintainers,

PowerMock version 2.0.9 (see RFP #1099353 [1]) depends on Mockito
version 4.3.1 or newer.

[...] We could think about packaging 4.x for experimental in the future
or even a new mockito4 source package [...]

Both suggestions seem to be suitable solutions at least. So could anyone
of you please consider it.

Thank you in advance!

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1099353