Bug#504425: Please fix these packaging problems

[Varun Hiremath]

Hello Onkar,

On Tue, 04 Nov, 2008 at 01:39:38AM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> Package: jftp
> Version: 1.51~pre4-2
> 
> I was planning to port the packaging changes I did in Ubuntu for jftp
> to Debian this week. But Varun has already done most of the changes in
> 1.51~pre4-2 (in NEW queue). Following are some changes I believe are
> still remaining. All comments welcome.
> 
> 1. debian/control
> Remove unneeded build and runtime dependency libjorbis-java.
> Modify JRE dependencies to openjdk-6-jre | java5-runtime | java6-runtime.
> 2. debian/jftp.run
> Remove hard coded path to openjdk java binary. Instead simply use -
> java -jar /usr/share/java/jftp.jar "$@"

jftp doesn't load with java-gcj and some of the other free JREs. It
only works with sun jre and openjdk jre. Did you try running jftp with
other JREs?

I get this error, when I try to run jftp with java-gcj:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
   at net.sf.jftp.gui.base.StatusPanel.<init>(StatusPanel.java:79)
   at net.sf.jftp.JFtp.init(JFtp.java:180)
   at net.sf.jftp.JFtp.<init>(JFtp.java:166)
   at net.sf.jftp.JFtp.main(JFtp.java:574)

I haven't tried debugging into this, but I guess jftp uses some swing
classes which don't work with java-gcj.

> 3. debian/manifest.mf
> Remove jorbis.jar and jogg.jar from class path.
> 4. debian/rules
> Remove jorbis and jogg from DEB_JARS.

Hmm.. not sure why we added those jars, but yes they can be removed
now. Thanks.

> 5. debian/README.debian
> Add to comply with 3.8.0 standards version.

Do you mean README.source? We have a README.Debian-source file and I
think it should be renamed to README.source according to 3.8.0
standards.

Thanks,
Varun