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From: Ponomarenko Andrey <andrewponomarenko@yandex.ru>
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Subject: Re: Backward compatibility report
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Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 16:05:15 +0300
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archived-at: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:05:32 -0000

Hello,

Thank you for reporting this bug. Usually the tool checks super-classes and doesn't report removal of overwritten methods. But in this case the super-class is defined in the different jar (httpcore-4.2.5.jar) and therefore it was not taken into account. I'll try to fix the report soon.

07.06.2016, 16:09, "Oleg Kalnichevski":
> On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 18:09 +0300, Ponomarenko Andrey wrote:
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  I've prepared backward compatibility reports for HttpClient and HttpCore libraries:
>>
>>  http://abi-laboratory.pro/java/tracker/timeline/httpclient/
>>  http://abi-laboratory.pro/java/tracker/timeline/httpcore/
>>
>>  I hope they will help users, maintainers and developers to maintain backward compatibility. The reports are updated daily by the japi-compliance-checker and japi-tracker tools: https://github.com/lvc/japi-compliance-checker
>>
>>  Please let me know if there are some false positives in the report.
>>
>>  Thank you.
>
> Hi Andrey
>
> The reports look pretty awesome.
>
> However, if I am not mistaken removal of overwritten methods from a
> subclass should not affect binary compatibility, should it?
>
> http://abi-laboratory.pro/java/tracker/compat_report/httpcore/4.2.5/4.3/55421/bin_compat_report.html#Removed
>
> High severity for these changes sounds a bit too much if you ask me.
>
> Oleg
>

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