Bug#1093673: libdnsjava-java: dnsjava JAR is empty and carries the wrong version

[Ingo Bauersachs]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:28:30 +0100 Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> thanks a lot for catching this.  I understood your comment to
>   Re: Bug#1093577: dnssecjava: New upstream versio[1]
> that you are working on a fix.  I'm very sorry that I messed things
> up in dnsjava but feel it is in good hands now.  Please let me know
> if you want me to do anything.

I've had a brief look at the upload, and it uses the pom that Emanuel
created when dnsjava was still hosted on Sourceforge, using Ant and
had binaries committed in the source tree. Upstream now has a proper
pom, and IMO the build step that overwrites it should be removed.

The upstream pom properly handles the various Java versions, excludes
some source files needed for legacy Java and Android builds, and 
mitigates the build failure that caused the Debian pom to be written
in the first place.
It needs some dependencies not packaged in Debian for testing and
build validation, but they can be safely disabled.

I'm also not sure if it's worth keeping dnsjava. I of course
appreciate it being in Debian, but the only rdep is jakarta-jmeter,
which was last updated to 2.13 in March 2016 and has a low popcon.
Upstream is 5.6.3 from January 2024 (built using Gradle).


> I understood Ingo Bauersachs in the same way that dnssecjava can
> be removed.  It might make sense to add some
> 
>   Conflicts: dnssecjava
>   Provides: dnssecjava
>   Replaces: dnssecjava
> 
> to dnsjava to reflect this.

I'm not packaging-savvy enough to know if that makes sense. While the
dnssecjava code lives on in dnsjava, the API surface is entirely
different.

> Thank you Tony and Ingo for your help
>    Andreas.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1093577#15

Cheers,
Ingo