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

[Jorge Moraleda]

Hello Tony,

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. I believe the appropriate action is #3 (remove libitext-rups-java
binary
package from bookworm) because it is useless as it stands.

---- Two other comments for the record
(1) An apt list libitext*
reveals
libitext-java/testing,unstable,testing,now 2.1.7-13 all
[installed,automatic]
libitext-rtf-java/testing,unstable,testing 2.1.7-13 all
libitext-rups-java/testing,unstable,testing 2.1.7-13 all
libitext1-java/testing,unstable,testing 1.4-7 all
libitext5-java/testing,unstable,testing 5.5.13.3-2 all

I am not familiar with libitext, so I don't know if we really need to
maintain multiple versions of it in the repo. From the comments on the
ubuntu bug report. It appears that versions 1 and 2 are hopelessly updated,
but I do see that there are indeep packages that depend on the older
versions.

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(2) If there is a maintainer for libitext-rups-java I would suggest they
upgrade to use at least libitext5-java and then reupload to
experimental. (Version
5 is not so old, but upstream is already at 7).

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 8:50 PM tony mancill <tmancill at debian.org> wrote:

> 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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