Bug#808782: Fwd: Bug#808782: RFS: jpedal4-lgpl [ITP] Java PDF Extraction Decoding Access Library (LGPL4)
Hello Markus:
Sorry for my late reply and thanks for your sponsorship.
On 07/01/16 11:26, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
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> Am 22.12.2015 um 22:56 schrieb Jerome BENOIT:
> [...]
>>
>> Dear Mentors:
>>
>> I am looking for a sponsor for the packages jpedal4-lgpl, a wide used
>> Java library that allows one to manipulate PDF material.
>> The concerned version of jpedal is actually frozen, but it is still
>> wildly used because of its license.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Some remarks:
>
> I cloned the sources from
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/jpedal4-lgpl.git/
>
> The package fails to build from source, probably the same issue as with
> openviewerfx, an incompatibility with bouncycastle 1.51.
>
> src/org/jpedal/io/CertificateReader.java:70: error: method getContent in
> class RecipientInformation cannot be applied to given types;
> envelopedData = recipientInfo.getContent(key,
> provider);
> ^
> required: Recipient
> found: Key,String
> reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length
> Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
> Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
> Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
> Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
> 1 error
> 9 warnings
>
>
> What is your motivation to package jpdal4-lgpl for Debian? Is this
> library a requirement for something else? Why would we need jpedal4 if
> the development is frozen?
>
> The package claims jpedal4 is actively developed but is this really
> true? The homepage address of the fork is
>
> https://github.com/on-site/JPedal
>
> and I can see only two commits there and no releases. Looks pretty dead
> in my opinion.
You are right.
Meanwhile OpenViewerFX moved to GitHub and thing get clearer for me:
I am not sure that this pacakge is indeed still needed.
For now I will focus on the OpenViewerFX package.
The probability is high that I abandon this package:
I will let you know and I will clean the place if it happens.
Best regards,
Jerome
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus
>
>
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