Bug#138109: marked as done (libfop-java is broken at install; docs for fixing this are inadequate)

Mon Dec 15 16:39:02 2003

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Subject: libfop-java is broken at install; docs for fixing this are
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From: Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org>
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Package: libfop-java
Version: 1:0.20.3-1
Severity: grave

The libfop-java package is in a nearly unusable state because the
package's true dependencies are not reflected in the package's Depends
line.

Specifically, the problem seems to center around batik.  It isn't
packaged, but fop will fail with an exception every time if you don't
have it.  The README.Debian says about batik and some other deps that
are needed to run libfop-java: "the other ones you have to find yourself
and put in /usr/share/java."

So, I downloaded batik, and tried several different ways of unpacking
it.  The only one that worked (sort of) was to unpack batik somewhere
else, then copy the root-level jars into /usr/share/java and the jars in
the lib subdir into /usr/share/java/lib.  This after trial and error. 
No description of this process is given anywhere in the libfop-java
package, the FOP web site, or the Batik web site.

In any other package, if a critical dependency isn't available, the
package is not given the liberty of just saying "oh, there's a tarball
of binary shared libs at www.foobar.com; download those and unpack them
into /usr/lib".  Why is it any different with Java?

At the very least, the README.Debian should have complete, well-written,
step-by-step documentation for installing batik.  Better yet, you should
package batik, or at least include batik in the libfop-java package, so
it can be pulled down and installed correctly by dpkg.

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So I suppose I can close the bug.
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Arnaud