> It passes the Search style and that's what counts atm

True and not rejecting this but the fact that checkstyle doesn't fail doesn't mean it's correct. It advises on screw ups but we can't force it to check for everything.. just saying as a general responsibility: we are responsible, checkstyle just helps to find.
On the specific case: I agree with Gunnar that we'll likely fix this soon, but not too important now.