Bug#271654: fop: build with free tools (was: Re: Migration of fop to testing)

[Arnaud Vandyck]

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Package: fop
Version: 1:0.20.5-4
Severity: wishlist


Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:02:28 +0200, 
Daniel Bonniot <Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr> wrote: 

> Marcus Crafter wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>>>From what I can tell, it looks like fop can't enter testing because it
>> depends on java runtimes that don't exist in testing (eg. j2re1.3 |
>> j2re1.4 | java2-runtime).
>> Since java-policy says that libraries cannot depend on
>> java-virtual-machine I'm not so sure how this can be fixed until a free
>> java2-runtime enters debian.
>
> By adding a free runtime to the depends list of fop ;-)
> I just tried running fop on kaffe, and it worked perfectly. It did not
> generate bit-for-bit the same pdf as with a Sun JVM, but looking at the
> output it looks completely OK.
>
> If it can also be built with jikes or kaffe, then it could even move to
> main (Arnaud: hint hint :-)

I'll try to do it but there is still a dependency against 'jimi' which
is NOT in debian (lib from Sun, non-free) for manipulating images. But
jimi is old and the code is now in the jdk I think. I don't know if fop
upstream still uses jimi or if they switch image manipulation code with
the new one.

> PS: I consider the relevant people informed, but if you prefer I can
> open a wishlist bug report.

done ;-)

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