[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#919728: beast2-mcmc: FTBFS (cannot find symbol jam.mac.Utils.macOSXRegistration)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:beast2-mcmc
Version: 2.5.1+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package in buster but it failed:

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 debian/rules build-indep
dh build-indep --with javahelper
   dh_update_autotools_config -i
   dh_autoreconf -i
   dh_auto_configure -i
   jh_linkjars -i
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_build
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/beast2-mcmc-2.5.1+dfsg'
# move tests requiring fest.swing out of the way
mv src/test/beast/app/beauti debian/fest_swing_tests
dh_auto_build
	ant -Duser.name debian
Buildfile: /<<BUILDDIR>>/beast2-mcmc-2.5.1+dfsg/build.xml

clean:

init:
     [echo] BUILD_BEAST_2: /<<BUILDDIR>>/beast2-mcmc-2.5.1+dfsg/build.xml

compile-all:
     [echo] Building BEAST 2
    [mkdir] Created dir: /<<BUILDDIR>>/beast2-mcmc-2.5.1+dfsg/build
    [javac] Compiling 475 source files to /<<BUILDDIR>>/beast2-mcmc-2.5.1+dfsg/build
    [javac] warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 8
    [javac] /<<BUILDDIR>>/beast2-mcmc-2.5.1+dfsg/src/beast/app/beauti/Beauti.java:1274: error: cannot find symbol
    [javac]                         jam.mac.Utils.macOSXRegistration(application);
    [javac]                                      ^
    [javac]   symbol:   method macOSXRegistration(Application)
    [javac]   location: class Utils
    [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
    [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
    [javac] 1 error
    [javac] 1 warning

BUILD FAILED
/<<BUILDDIR>>/beast2-mcmc-2.5.1+dfsg/build.xml:77: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.

Total time: 38 seconds
dh_auto_build: ant -Duser.name debian returned exit code 1
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:32: override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/beast2-mcmc-2.5.1+dfsg'
make: *** [debian/rules:23: build-indep] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-indep subprocess returned exit status 2
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The build was made in my autobuilder with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
and it also fails here:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/beast2-mcmc.html

where you can get a full build log if you need it.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use reassign and affects,
so that this is still visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.