[pkg-eucalyptus-maintainers] Bug#724138: Bug#724138: Future of the wss4j package in Debian.

[Brian Thomason]

Hi Charles,

Thanks for looking into this.  No, it is no longer needed moving forward so
can likely be removed from Debian altogether without issue.

-Brian


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org> wrote:

> Dear Eucalyptus and Java teams,
>
> wss4j (Apache WSS4J WS-Security) is a package that was created in order
> to build the Eucalyptus packages, which are currently removed.  The
> wss4j fails to build from source in Jessie and Unstable.
>
> Current version in Debian is 1.5.8.  On the upstream website, versions
> 1.5.12
> and 1.6.12 are available.  The 1.6 line diverged after 1.5.11.  A version
> 1.5.13, fixing some extra bugs, is available as a SVN tag but is not
> advertised
> on the upstream website.
>
> The Debian package contains a patch removing some code related to SAML,
> for a
> reason that I do not remember.  This patch does not apply cleanly to
> version
> 1.5.12, and I suppose it will be the same for 1.6.12.  For this reason, I
> could
> not test if updating to one of the latest upstream releases will make the
> wss4j
> package build again for source.  Not knowing Java enough, I could not go
> further.
>
> My questions are the following:
>
>  - Is wss4j still needed in Debian ?  Would Eucalyptus 3.0 still use it ?
>  - Is the Java team interested by taking it over, in any case ?
>
> Here is the extract of the build log that was sent to the bug report.
>
> Le Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 07:15:37PM +0200, David Suárez a écrit :
> >
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/«BUILDDIR»/wss4j-1.5.8+svntag'
> > > /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk:31: WARNING:
> simple-patchsys.mk is deprecated - please use source format 3.0 (quilt)
> instead
> > > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `update-config'.
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/«BUILDDIR»/wss4j-1.5.8+svntag'
> > > cd . && /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/bin/java -classpath
> /usr/share/ant/lib/ant.jar:/usr/share/ant/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/usr/share/java/axis.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-logging.jar:/usr/share/java/xalan2.jar:/usr/share/java/bcprov.jar:/usr/share/java/jaxrpc.jar:/usr/share/java/xmlsec.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/default-java/lib/tools.jar
>  -Dant.home=/usr/share/ant org.apache.tools.ant.Main -Dcompile.debug=true
> -Dcompile.optimize=true   -buildfile debian/build.xml
> > > Buildfile: /«BUILDDIR»/wss4j-1.5.8+svntag/debian/build.xml
> > >
> > > init:
> > >
> > > prepare:
> > >     [mkdir] Created dir: /«BUILDDIR»/wss4j-1.5.8+svntag/build
> > >     [mkdir] Created dir:
> /«BUILDDIR»/wss4j-1.5.8+svntag/build/test-reports
> > >
> > > prepare-src:
> > >     [mkdir] Created dir: /«BUILDDIR»/wss4j-1.5.8+svntag/build/classes
> > >
> > > compile.library:
> > >     [javac] /«BUILDDIR»/wss4j-1.5.8+svntag/build.xml:340: warning:
> 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to build.sysclasspath=last; set
> to false for repeatable builds
> > >     [javac] Compiling 98 source files to
> /«BUILDDIR»/wss4j-1.5.8+svntag/build/classes
> > >     [javac] warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in
> conjunction with -source 1.3
> > >     [javac]
> /«BUILDDIR»/wss4j-1.5.8+svntag/src/org/apache/ws/security/WSSConfig.java:288:
> error: cannot find symbol
> > >     [javac]             Transform.init();
> > >     [javac]                      ^
> > >     [javac]   symbol:   method init()
> > >     [javac]   location: class Transform
> > >     [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
> > >     [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
> > >     [javac] 1 error
> > >     [javac] 1 warning
> > >
> > > BUILD FAILED
> > > /«BUILDDIR»/wss4j-1.5.8+svntag/build.xml:340: Compile failed; see the
> compiler error output for details.
> > >
> > > Total time: 6 seconds
> > > make: *** [debian/stamp-ant-build] Error 1
> >
> > The full build log is available from:
> >
> http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/09/22/wss4j_1.5.8+svntag-2_unstable.log
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>
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