Bug#1035852: jhove: Request permission & assistance for NMU, patch series included

[Elias Oltmanns]

Source: jhove
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainers,

Debian has missed a few upstream releases of jhove. Trying to package
the current production release myself, I have encountered a few
obstacles and managed to resolve most of them. Please find a series of
patches including the changelog below. They apply to master at:
https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/jhove.git

Unfortunately, I have not managed to build jhove for unstable but had to
install libjsonp-java version 1.1.2-4~exp0 from experimental. This is
because libjsonp-java 1.1.2-4~exp0 exports jars whereas 1.1.2-3 exports
a bundle and I have not figured out how to build jhove against that
bundle (I am not a java developer). Perhaps you have a suggestion how to
resolve the dependency in unstable, otherwise we would have to depend on
the experimental version of libjsonp-java and hope that it will make it
into unstable.

Either way, it would be nice to have a current version of jhove in
Debian again. By the way, upstream seems to be preparing a new release
shortly and I am pleased to find that v1.28.0-RC2 builds just fine on
Debian with the aforementioned experimental version of libjsonp-java
too.

Finally, I wonder if jhove could be included in the main distribution
again. Upstream sources are repackaged without JAR files and non-free
ICC profiles now. Please see the patches for further details.
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