RFS: pdftk (major NMU, fixes RC bugs)

[Johann Felix Soden <johfel@gmx.de>]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my NMU of the package "pdftk".

In the last month, I sent two mails to its maintainer (Aurélien GÉRÔME)
concerning his package/this NMU but got no reply.

To solve the (RC) bugs, I have to change lots of things. See below for
the shortened changelog. So this is not a normal small-diff NMU.

* Package name    : pdftk
  Version         : 1.41+dfsg-0.1
  Upstream Author : Sid Steward <ssteward@accesspdf.com>
* URL             : http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/
* License         : GPL-2+
  Section         : text

It builds these binary packages:
pdftk      - useful tool for manipulating PDF documents

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 258377, 424920, 461169, 470215, 504014,
504128, 514561, 519466, 533795, 534080, 538252

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pdftk
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pdftk/pdftk_1.41+dfsg-0.1.dsc

The important changes are:

  * DFSG-repack and use extern libitext-java (Closes: #519466)
  * Support newer gcj (Closes: #470215, #514561, #534080, #533795, #538252)
  * Handle utf8 filenames (Closes: #258377, #504014, #504128)
  * Handle utf8-data, CreationDate and ModDate fields in update_info correctly
    (Closes: #424920, #461169)
  * Rework build system
    - minimize dh rules, update dependencies
  * Update debian/watch and use created debian/uscan-dfsg-clean.sh
  * Clean debian/copyright from itext, use machine-readable format
    - upstream uses GPL-2+ (not unversioned GPL)

I would be glad if someone nm-uploaded this package for me.

Kind regards
 Johann Felix Soden