Bug#972993: eclipse-wtp: FTBFS cannot find symbol

[Markus Koschany]

Source: eclipse-wtp
Version: 3.18-4
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
X-Debbugs-Cc: eclipse-wtp: FTBFS cannot find symbol

Hi,

while I was rebuilding reverse-dependencies of jflex, I discovered
that eclipse-wtp fails to build from source. The error is unrelated to
the new version of jflex.

org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui:
     [echo] Building bundle 'Structured Source Editor' (org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui:1.7.0)
    [mkdir] Created dir: /build/eclipse-wtp-3.18/org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui/target/classes
    [touch] Creating /build/eclipse-wtp-3.18/org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui/target/dependencies
    [mkdir] Created dir: /build/eclipse-wtp-3.18/org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui/target/sources
     [copy] Copying 295 files to /build/eclipse-wtp-3.18/org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui/target/sources
    [javac] Compiling 295 source files to /build/eclipse-wtp-3.18/org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui/target/classes
    [javac] /build/eclipse-wtp-3.18/org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui/target/sources/org/eclipse/wst/sse/ui/internal/selection/SelectionHistory.java:23: error: cannot find symbol
    [javac] import org.eclipse.jface.util.Assert;
    [javac]                              ^
    [javac]   symbol:   class Assert
    [javac]   location: package org.eclipse.jface.util
    [javac] /build/eclipse-wtp-3.18/org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui/target/sources/org/eclipse/wst/sse/ui/internal/preferences/ui/StatusInfo.java:18: error: cannot find symbol
    [javac] import org.eclipse.jface.util.Assert;
    [javac]                              ^
    [javac]   symbol:   class Assert
    [javac]   location: package org.eclipse.jface.util
    [javac] /build/eclipse-wtp-3.18/org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui/target/sources/org/eclipse/wst/sse/ui/internal/selection/StructureSelectAction.java:20: error: cannot find symbol
    [javac] import org.eclipse.jface.util.Assert;
    [javac]                              ^
    [javac]   symbol:   class Assert
    [javac]   location: package org.eclipse.jface.util
    [javac] /build/eclipse-wtp-3.18/org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui/target/sources/org/eclipse/wst/sse/ui/internal/TransferBuilder.java:297: warning: non-varargs call of varargs method with inexact argument type for last parameter;
    [javac] >--->--->--->---obj = mtd.invoke(null, null);
    [javac] >--->--->--->---                       ^
    [javac]   cast to Object for a varargs call
    [javac]   cast to Object[] for a non-varargs call and to suppress this warning
    [javac] /build/eclipse-wtp-3.18/org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui/target/sources/org/eclipse/wst/sse/ui/internal/selection/SelectionHistory.java:36: error: cannot find symbol
    [javac] >--->---Assert.isNotNull(editor);
    [javac] >--->---^
....