[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#684172: picard-tools: Transition package to default java implementation

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:22:52AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> > LoadSnappy is available upstream
> > (http://code.google.com/p/snappy-java/source/browse/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/?r=727093ff48a59d893737c59c82f1cde078d57c7b),
> > but not in package.
> > Seems to be missing in tar.gz  and generated jar on upstream site,
> > though present in code trunk.
> 
> After deeper look upstream, it seems that LoadSnappy has been removed.

Just for the sake of testing and without the idea to really upload it
that way I have checked out LoadSnappy and injected it via quilt patch.
I can confirm that the picard-tools package will build when using this
hack.

> Following revision shows that LoadSnappy has been renamed SnappyLoader:
> http://code.google.com/p/snappy-java/source/detail?r=e3c8a3bc97ae5fc6ba143ba4d596fb14a9efbf91
> 
> Version 1.0.4.1 does not use anymore LoadSnappy.
> Maybe a patch in picard-tools to use SnappyLoader would be enough....

This should be the prefered solution!  Any volunteer?

Kind regards

       Andreas. 

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