Bug#725461: batik: FTBFS: Unable to find a javac compiler

[Markus Koschany]

Hi,

On 16.10.2013 07:21, tony mancill wrote:
> On 10/14/2013 06:23 AM, Markus Koschany wrote:
[...]
>> I have prepared a new revision for batik and committed everything to the
>> svn repository of the package. I believe the changes will fix this bug.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Any concerns with an upload of Markus's changes?
> 

The current svn revision still recommends default-jre because of the
included wrapper scripts squiggle, rasterizer, ttf2svg and svgpp. The
recommendation for default-jre is the only thing that bothers me. The
current dependencies on jre-headless go against the current java policy
but the current package also needs a working JRE to run the
aforementioned wrapper scripts. I think recommending default-jre is a
kind of compromise here.

I agree with Emmanuel Bourg's comment from the list that it is more
reasonable to split the package in libbatik-java and batik. I have done
this locally and all reverse dependencies (except osmosis that FTBFS
because of another bug) still build fine. Though I'm not 100% sure if
one of those r-deps expects one of the wrapper scripts to be included in
libbatik-java, otherwise it would be simple.

Splitting the package is a rather big change and I still hesitate to
implement it without getting feedback from one of batik's past uploaders
and I don't intend to become an uploader for batik myself.

Hence I think uploading the current changes would be a good idea and I
will attach a patch for #566901 soon.

Regards,

Markus


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