Hi, Debian-Java, I've never posted to this list before. Probably I should also report this is as a bug, but first I wanted to ask a few questions.
Question #1: --- When a package moves from Unstable to Testing, does it get rebuilt (from scratch) in Testing? Do packages ever get rebuilt from scratch for a target distribution? I suspect they don't, hence this bug (described below): --- In Wheezy the jar file (as currently built) "/usr/share/java/itext.jar" contains a dependency on "org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1ObjectIdentifier" in "/usr/share/java/bcprov.jar", but that class doesn't appear until newer versions of bcprov.jar compared to the one in Wheezy. This is due to bcprov.jar evolving in a non-reverse-compatible way from a runtime point of view, but it is reverse-compatible from a compile-time point of view. Specifically, bcprov-1.44 contains several static final constants like this one, and itext.jar references some of them: org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.X509Extensions.AuthorityInfoAccess (type is DERObjectIdentifier). bcprov-1.46 contains the same static final constants, but their types have changed to the new ASN1ObjectIdentifier class not present in bcprov-1.44. To fix the bug I suspect you have two choices: 1.) Either rebuild itext.jar from scratch in Wheezy. No code changes are necessary. But recompiling in Testing will then cause the package to break in Unstable! 2.) Migrate the newer Bouncy-Castle into Wheezy. Question #2: --- Why doesn't the libitext-java package make its runtime dependency on libbcprov-java explicit in the package meta-data? P.S./Off-Topic.... Any idea where this is at? "RFS: not-yet-commons-ssl". http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/01/msg00640.html Just curious, since I'm upstream for that one, and happened to notice the RFS. :-) :-) :-) -- yours, Julius Davies 604-222-3310 (Home) $ sudo apt-get install cowsay $ echo "Moo." | cowsay | cowsay -n | cowsay -n http://juliusdavies.ca/cowsay/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cannf_p1_8sde-hphb3wrr0qew_6z8sp5bbydxkochhg7gst...@mail.gmail.com
