[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1099511: newest releases of bc* java libraries cause arduino to fail to start

[Matthias Geiger]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 11:51:06 +0100 Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:
> On 04/03/2025 11:33, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the clarification.
> > 
> > I have reassigned accordingly: If I understand you correctly, the bug
> > (of changing without coordination with reverse dependencies) is in
> > src:bouncycastle, even if the best fix might be a change in arduino.
> 
> Actually the issue is the classpath used by arduino, it contains only 
> bcprov.jar and should now also include bcutil.jar. This can't be done at 
> the src:bouncycastle level and must be changed in src:arduino, here:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/arduino/arduino/-/blob/debian/2%251.8.19+dfsg1-2/debian/arduino.links?ref_type=tags#L25
> 
> The arduino package will also require a dependency on libbcutil-java.
>
Hi Emmanuel,
thanks for the hint. I built a package with said tweaks enabled; 
however, it still fails to start:

$ arduino
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS:
Error: main class processing.app.Base can't be initialized
Reason: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
processing/app/helpers/UserNotifier

Do you have any more pointers so I can fix this in time for trixie ?

best,

Matthias Geiger <werdahias>