Bug#968937: src:derby: Please add support to build against libjson-simple-java >= 3

[Gilles Filippini]

Hi Emmanuel,

Could you please review / apply this patch? Derby is the last blocker
for this json-simple transition.

Thanks in advance.

_g.

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:37:35 +0200 Gilles Filippini <pini at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: src:derby
> Version: 10.14.2.0-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to transition json-simple 3.1.1 to unstable, but derby is a blocker since it builds against libjson-simple-java << 3 only.
> 
> The json-simple classes used by derby were deprecated in version 2.0.0 [1]. There were removed in versions 3.x [2].
> 
> [1] https://github.com/cliftonlabs/json-simple/blob/json-simple-2.0.0/README.txt
> [2] https://github.com/cliftonlabs/json-simple/blob/json-simple-3.0.1/CHANGELOG
> 
> Please find attached a patch proposal to use the current json-simple classes. I've tested that the package builds correctly against libjson-simple-java version 2.3.0-1 from unstable and version 3.1.1-1~exp2 currently in experimental. But I don't known how to test the package afterward.
> 
> Thanks in advance for considering.
> 
> _g.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 

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