Migration of fop to testing

[Daniel Bonniot]

Marcus Crafter wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
>>From what I can tell, it looks like fop can't enter testing because it
> depends on java runtimes that don't exist in testing (eg. j2re1.3 |
> j2re1.4 | java2-runtime).
> 
> Since java-policy says that libraries cannot depend on
> java-virtual-machine I'm not so sure how this can be fixed until a free
> java2-runtime enters debian.

By adding a free runtime to the depends list of fop ;-)
I just tried running fop on kaffe, and it worked perfectly. It did not 
generate bit-for-bit the same pdf as with a Sun JVM, but looking at the output 
it looks completely OK.

If it can also be built with jikes or kaffe, then it could even move to main 
(Arnaud: hint hint :-)

Cheers,

Daniel

PS: I consider the relevant people informed, but if you prefer I can open a 
wishlist bug report.