Bug#893702: Please stop build-depending on pdftk

[Matthias Klose]

On 23.03.2018 00:08, Chris Lamb wrote:
> tags 893702 - patch
> thanks
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
>> pdftk still still depends on GCJ, and is likely to be removed when gcj is
>> removed. Please stop build-depending on pdftk.
> 
> We build-depend on pdftk because we actually use it to compare files,
> so unfortunately simply dropping it from the Build-Depends is not a
> sufficient patch.

Another package suggested pyPDF as an alternative. I didn't look if that's
feasable for diffoscope as well. There's also a pdftk port to OpenJDK mentioned
in one of the pdftk bugs, but that doesn't yet look very mature.