Hello,
Vincent Privat, le mer. 22 août 2018 21:01:16 +0200, a ecrit:
> Samuel, do you know when the root issue will be fixed in Java ATK wrapper?
The root issue is in openjdk, not the wrapper. Openjdk has apparently
removed the way that was used to load the wrapper, without apparently
making sure that another way was implemented. I have forwarded the issue
upstream
http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8204862
but apparently they don't have the issue (I guess they don't actually
manage to enable the wrapper in the configuration file).
> > > Since today we are spammed by bug reports from Linux Mint and Ubuntu when
> > > people try to launch JOSM with the latest Java update
> > > (10.0.2+13-Ubuntu-1ubuntu0.18.04.1):
Which version is introducing the issue exactly? AFAIK it's the whole
openjdk >= 9 which poses the problem.
> Has it ever been considered that this package is made optional rather than a
> strict dependency of openjdk-<n>-jre?
The problem is not the dependency, but what openjdk itself is doing. ATM
it seems to be insisting on loading the wrapper even when it's not
available. I guess catching exceptions around
src/java.desktop/share/classes/java/awt/Toolkit.java's getDefaultToolkit
call to loadAssistiveTechnologies, to just print the exception but not
abort, would allow to make the dependency a Recommends only.
Concerning actually managing to load the wrapper, see the backlog of
#900912. I have commited to the git repo of java-atk-wrapper what is
said to be needed for making it loadable with openjdk 9 and later, but
as I said there, we still seem to be lacking in openjdk a path where the
wrapper can be put for openjdk to find it. And it's been a month without
anybody answering.
Samuel