Bug#526092: fop wrapper script doesn't easily support hyphenation jar

[Paul Millar]

Package: fop
Version: 1:0.95.dfsg-4
Severity: important

Fop includes support for hyphenation using the hyphenation information taken from the TeX project; however, 
for licensing issues, the Apache FOP project is unable to redistribute the hyphenation information within 
their releases of fop.  One must download and install the hyphenation data as an additional task.  This 
hyphenation support is in the form of a single jar file that must be included in the classpath.

Previous versions of fop deb package contained /usr/bin/fop as some fop-specific script that allowed it's 
behaviour to be tailored through parameters held in an external file: /etc/fop.conf.  In that file, the 
variable FOP_HYPHENATION_PATH may be specified, allowing one to easily alter the behaviour of the 
distributed /usr/bin/fop script so it includes hyphenation support.

The most recent version of fop appears to have switched to using java_wrappers.  In doing so, support for 
/etc/fop.conf appears to have been lost and there seems to be no other mechanism for specifying the 
hyphenation jar file.

As a work-around, I have manually edited /usr/bin/fop to include the line:

find_jars /usr/local/share/java/fop-hyph.jar

However, I feel this is undesirable as this is a configuration, so better recorded within /etc.
find_jars /usr/local/share/java/fop-hyph.jar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fop depends on:
ii  gij-4.1 [java2-runtime]  4.1.2-19        The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  java-gcj-compat [java2-r 1.0.80-1        Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  java-wrappers            0.1.13          wrappers for java executables
ii  libavalon-framework-java 4.2.0-4         Common framework for Java server a
ii  libbatik-java            1.7-4           xml.apache.org SVG Library
ii  libbsf-java              1:2.4.0-2       Bean Scripting Framework to suppor
ii  libcommons-io-java       1.4-1           Common useful IO related classes
ii  libcommons-logging-java  1.1.1-2         commmon wrapper interface for seve
ii  libxalan2-java           2.7.1-2         XSL Transformations (XSLT) process
ii  libxerces2-java          2.9.1-2         Validating XML parser for Java wit
ii  libxml-commons-external- 1.3.04-2        XML Commons external code - DOM, S
ii  libxmlgraphics-commons-j 1.3.1.dfsg-2    reusable components used by Batik 
ii  libxp6                   1:1.0.0.xsf1-2  X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie
ii  libxt6                   1:1.0.5-3       X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxtst6                 2:1.0.3-1       X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  openjdk-6-jre [java2-run 6b14-1.5~pre1-5 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo
ii  sun-java5-jre [java2-run 1.5.0-18-1      Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (
ii  sun-java6-jre [java2-run 6-13-1          Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

Versions of packages fop recommends:
ii  libsaxon-java                 1:6.5.5-5  The Saxon XSLT Processor

Versions of packages fop suggests:
pn  fop-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  libservlet2.4-java            5.0.30-8   Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 Java class

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