[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#960654: Bug#960654: src:biojava4-live: Please add support to build against libjson-simple-java >= 3

[olivier sallou]

Hi,
thanks for the patch.
However, if json-simple API/ABI is broken, I think that package should
be kinda libjson-simple3-java to keep compatibility with existing
packages using old versions and allow transition of packages to new
release if needed and possible.

Anyway, gonna add your patch

Olivier

On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 09:41 +0200, Gilles Filippini wrote:
> Package: src:biojava4-live
> Version: 4.2.12+dfsg-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to transition json-simple 3.1.1 to unstable, but biojava4-
> live is a blocker since it builds against libjson-simple-java << 3
> only.
> 
> The json-simple classes used by biojava4-live were deprecated in
> version 2.0.0 [1]. There were removed in versions 3.x [2].
> 
> [1] 
> https://github.com/cliftonlabs/json-simple/blob/json-simple-2.0.0/README.txt
> [2] 
> https://github.com/cliftonlabs/json-simple/blob/json-simple-3.0.1/CHANGELOG
> 
> Please find attached a patch proposal to use the current json-simple
> classes. I've tested that the package builds correctly against
> libjson-simple-java version 2.3.0-1 from unstable and version 3.1.1-
> 1~exp2 currently in experimental, and the build time test cases
> report no errors.
> 
> Thanks in advance for considering.
> 
> _g.
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