Bug#1033170: libitext-rups-java: Does not work at all

[tony mancill]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 05:42:12PM -0400, Jorge Moraleda wrote:
> Package: libitext-rups-java
> Version: 2.1.7-13
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> X-Debbugs-Cc: jorge.moraleda at gmail.com
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The package does not work at all. Based on the following Ubuntu bug report it
> appears the version packaged is too old to work:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libitext-java/+bug/802021

Hi Jorge,

Thanks for filing the bug.  You don't describe the desired behavior, but
when I run "java -jar /usr/share/java/itext-rups.jar" I don't get a GUI
for PDF manipulation, so there is definitely something broken there.

By filing a severity grave [0] bug against this binary package you have
created a release-critical bug that also affects libitext-java [1],
which has almost 30000 installs [2] and impacts multiple reverse
dependencies.  And we're in the midst of the freeze for the bookwork
release [3].

I propose that we either reduce the severity, ignore the bug for the
bookworm release cycle, or remove only the libitext-rups-java binary
package from bookworm.

Thank you,
tony

[0] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libitext-java
[2] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libitext-java
[3] https://release.debian.org/bookworm/freeze_policy.html
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