Bug#1020299: equinox-p2: wrong information in the manifest files

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Hi,

this bug (#1020299) is severity: serious and open since at least 
2022.

Is this actually a bug, and if yes, is it really sev: serious?

On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 12:28:03AM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> Control: tags -1 patch
> --
> 
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 03:58:29PM +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > Source: equinox-p2
> > Version: 4.21-1
> > Severity: important
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > The manifest file of equinox-p2 mentions that it needs bouncycastle version="1.65.0" but in Debian we have bouncycastle 1.71 and as a result any eclipse based application is not able to use equinox-p2 and it gives the errors like:
> > 
> > org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine [130]
> > 	Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: org.bouncycastle.openpgp; version="1.65.0"
> > 
> > org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core [131]
> > 	Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: org.bouncycastle.bcpg; version="1.65.0"
> 
> The attached patch is the minimum required to unblock eclipse-tracecompass.
> But Emmanuel Bourg did not agree so I am not doing an upload but keeping
> the patch here for record.
> Ref: https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2022/09/msg00002.html


Is the patch suitable? If not, please untag "patch".

If the bug itself is not sev: serious, please downgrade it.

Chris