Bug#300388: libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java: FTBFS: NullPointerException

[Wolfgang Baer]

Hi Grzegorz,

Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> That was an issue with setting default locales, and is already fixed
> in unstable (fix will be propagated into testing soon).  Please just try
> to use ANT with this version and everything should be all right.  Or
> actually you don't need to do anything :-)

Well there was something fixed with an NMU and it has already propagated
to testing - but it didn't fix the sablevm ant interaction problem.

I am running uptodate unstable and everytime i try to build a package 
with ant and sablevm I run in this problem - for example bsh-1.3.0 with
sablevm in the clean target:

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols.setCurrency 
(DecimalFormatSymbols.java:397)
    at java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols.DecimalFormatSymbols 
(DecimalFormatSymbols.java:151)
    at java.text.NumberFormat.computeInstance (NumberFormat.java:327)
    at java.text.NumberFormat.getNumberInstance (NumberFormat.java:456)
    at java.text.NumberFormat.getInstance (NumberFormat.java:381)
    at java.text.MessageFormatElement.setLocale (MessageFormat.java:90)
    at java.text.MessageFormat.scanFormat (MessageFormat.java:314)
    at java.text.MessageFormat.applyPattern (MessageFormat.java:335)
    at java.text.MessageFormat.formatInternal (MessageFormat.java:465)
    at java.text.MessageFormat.format (MessageFormat.java:403)
    at java.text.MessageFormat.format (MessageFormat.java:518)
    at java.text.Format.format (Format.java:101)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.util.DateUtils.formatElapsedTime 
(DateUtils.java:132)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.DefaultLogger.formatTime 
(DefaultLogger.java:276)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.DefaultLogger.buildFinished 
(DefaultLogger.java:156)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.fireBuildFinished (Project.java:1796)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild (Main.java:693)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt (Main.java:188)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start (Main.java:151)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main (Main.java:241)
    at java.lang.VirtualMachine.invokeMain (VirtualMachine.java)
    at java.lang.VirtualMachine.main (VirtualMachine.java:108)

The problem is also reported as bug #293509 on sablevm. The FTBS of
libcommons-jexl-java is also the same error (#299125). Although marked
as done by Arnaud (because of the sablevm-classlib NMU) it does FTBS
for me (just tried).

dpkg -l | grep sablevm
ii  libsablevm-classlib 1.1.9.dfsg1-0.1
ii  libsablevm-native1  1.1.9.dfsg1-0.1
ii  libsablevm1         1.1.9-1
ii  sablevm             1.1.9-1

Are you planning to make a package of the 1.11.1 release ? I hope this
release will fix all the FTBS bugs against the packages build with ant / 
sablevm combination.

Grzergorz, if I can help you with testing a new sablevm package send
me an email.

Regards,

Wolfgang