Bug#873209: Please drop dependency on avalon-framework

[Chris West]

Source: fop
Version: 1:2.1-7
Severity: wishlist
User: debian-java at lists.debian.org
Usertags: default-java9
Tags: patch
Blocks: 872797

avalon-framework is a very, very old (pre-2003) Java framework which
provides some code that nobody but fop is using anywhere, and fop isn't
using most of it. avalon-framework fails to build with Java 9, so it
seems like a good time to remove it from existence permanantly.

I have produced a patch to remove the use of avalon-framework, and tried
to upstream it here, with partial success:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2733


Cheers,
Chris.