[Debian-med-packaging] How to upgrade code from batik 1.8 to 1.10 which is lacking XMLConstants [Was: cgview.jar does not find class from batik-util]

[Olivier Sallou]

On 08/22/2018 09:38 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Olivier,
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 09:18:12AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
>> looking at batik-util.jar, I see no org/apache/batik/util/XMLConstants
>> inside
>>
>>
>> I can see it in batik  source code version 1.8 [0], but in 1.10 (debian
>> version)  [1], XMLConstants is not here
>>
>>
>> [0]
>> https://github.com/apache/batik/tree/batik-1_8/sources/org/apache/batik/util
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/apache/batik/tree/trunk/batik-util/src/main/java/org/apache/batik/util
> Thanks for this analysis.
>  
>> so cgview is not up-to-date with current batik version. package needs to
>> be updated to batik 1.10 (if possible..)
> CGView was not updated since 2010 but I keep upstream Paul Stothard in
> this conversation.  I'm pretty sure that he would be happy to have some
> patch for the issue.  However, as you know, usually JAR's are included
> into the downloadable archive and thus the issue we are facing in Debian
> when using system libraries exclusively does not exist for the general
> user and thus the motivation at upstream site might be low to migrate to
> a more recent batik version.
>  
> Since I personally have no idea how to replace XMLConstants when using
> batik 1.10 (and I also failed with a web search for a migration path) I'd
> be really happy about a patch.

will have a look, however is strange I do not find any XMLConstants
reference in cgview code....

>  
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
>  
>> On 08/22/2018 07:53 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>> I checked package cgview[1] since it is needed for some other
>>> package (to be packaged).  When I try
>>>
>>>     $ /usr/bin/cgview
>>> Error: Unable to initialize main class ca.ualberta.stothard.cgview.CgviewIO
>>> Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/batik/util/XMLConstants
>>>
>>>
>>> The class that is not found is in /usr/share/java/batik-util.jar which
>>> belongs to package libbatik-java which is in the list of Depends.  The
>>> JAR batik-util.jar is mentioned in debian/manifest Class-Path field.  I
>>> wonder why that class is not found anyway.
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated
>>>
>>>       Andreas.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/cgview
>>>

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