Re: Building jackson-core 3.0.0

[Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde@debian.org>]

Hello all,
hello Pierre,

Am 18.10.25 um 22:30 schrieb Pierre Gruet:
> Hello Mechtilde,
>
>
> Le 18/10/2025 à 18:56, Mechtilde Stehmann a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > I started to finish building version 3.0.0.
> >
> > This was started 2 weeks ago on salsa.debian.org.
> >
> > I uploaded my results at salsa.debian.org/mechtilde/jackson-core
> >
> > I added some new dependencies. I ended at this part:
> >
> > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven- 
> > compiler- plugin:3.13.0:compile (default-compile) on project jackson- 
> > core: Compilation failure: Compilation failure:
> > [ERROR] /build/reproducible-path/jackson-core-3.0.0/src/main/java/ 
> > tools/ jackson/core/json/JsonParserBase.java:[93,49] cannot find symbol
> > [ERROR]   symbol:   variable PackageVersion
> > [ERROR]   location: class tools.jackson.core.json.JsonParserBase
> > [ERROR] /build/reproducible-path/jackson-core-3.0.0/src/main/java/ 
> > tools/ jackson/core/json/JsonGeneratorBase.java:[173,49] cannot find 
> > symbol
> > [ERROR]   symbol:   variable PackageVersion
> > [ERROR]   location: class tools.jackson.core.json.JsonGeneratorBase
> > [ERROR] /build/reproducible-path/jackson-core-3.0.0/src/main/java/ 
> > tools/ jackson/core/json/JsonFactory.java:[258,16] cannot find symbol
> > [ERROR]   symbol:   variable PackageVersion
> > [ERROR]   location: class tools.jackson.core.json.JsonFactory
> > [ERROR] -> [Help 1]
> >
> > I have no idea to fix it. Any hint helps
>
> I started from your repository and changed the name of the version file 
> in debian/rules, from
> VERSION_FILE=src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/json/ 
> PackageVersion.java
> to
> VERSION_FILE=src/main/java/tools/jackson/core/json/PackageVersion.java

This works. I only found a file PackageVersion.java.in and didn't know 
that I have to use it in this way.

> Then the Java build is OK but there is a failure in dh_builddeb:
>     dh_builddeb
> dpkg-deb: error: parsing file 'debian/libjackson2-core-java/DEBIAN/ 
> control' near line 7 package 'libjackson2-core-java':
>   'Depends' field, reference to 'libfastdoubleparser-java': version '=': 
> version number does not start with digit
>
> No idea why a version number of "=" lands in
>      debian/libjackson2-core-java/DEBIAN/control
> this is very weird.

That is also wired for me. I also tested to set a min version into 
debian/control. But I get the same error message.

I updated my repo at salsa.debian.org/mechtilde/jackson-core

Maybe some other people have some ideas.

> > Regards
> >
> > Mechtilde
>
> All the best,

Regards

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