Bug#1128173: scilab: FTBFS with default Java 25

[Vladimir Petko]

Source: scilab
Version: 2024.1.0+dfsg-7ubuntu1
Severity: normal
Tags: ftbfs
Usertags: default-java25

Dear Maintainers,

The package scilab ftbfs with default Java 25.
The relevant part of the build log:
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Building the Scilab manual master document for en_US.
Building the scilab manual file [javaHelp]XML parsing error while generating documentation for file /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/scilab/modules/helptools/master_en_US_help.xml:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/scilab/modules/core/help/en_US/1_keywords/semicolon.xml; lineNumber: 3; columnNumber: 6; JAXP00010004: The accumulated size of entities is "100,001" that exceeded the "100,000" limit set by "jdk.xml.totalEntitySizeLimit".


  "If Scilab is started in a chroot, you might want to try to set the two environment variables: SCI_DISABLE_TK=1 SCI_JAVA_ENABLE_HEADLESS=1"
make[2]: *** [Makefile:2314: doc] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/scilab'
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:53: override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make: *** [debian/rules:38: binary] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
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Build finished at 2026-02-13T04:13:35Z

Finished
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers questing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'questing-updates'), (500, 'questing-security'), (500, 'questing'), (100, 'questing-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.17.0-12-generic (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled