Bug#846918: interface opens, but no menus and no action on button clicks

[tony mancill]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 10:55:38AM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Dec 2016 09:49:32 +0100, Martin Lutz wrote:
> 
> > Package: jabref
> > Version: 2.10+ds-7
> > Followup-For: Bug #846918
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > after an update yesterday, jabref fails to start.
> > ERROR while starting or running JabRef: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: DIALOG
> > 
> > Searching through the debian bug list, I find bug 846503 with a similar problem.
> 
> Yup, there seem to be some runtime incompatibilitites with the new
> libjgoodies-*, which were not caught at buildtime. Cf. also the
> thread starting at
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2016/12/msg00010.html
> 
> Probably we'll try with rebuilding the affected packages; for JabRef
> the good news is that we're working on updating to 3.6 which doesn't
> have these problems (but needs some wrinkles ironed out before we can
> upload it).

I attempted a binary rebuild of 2.10+ds using the libraries found in sid
and it didn't change the behavior.  It appears that it might be an issue
with the version of jgoodies-looks (2.7.0) available in Debian.  I will
dig into this more, since it could be affecting other users of
jgoodies-looks similarly, but at the moment, I'm trying to get an
updated JabRef version into the archive before stretch freezes.

Currently we're working on JabRef 3.6, but due to some excellent
assistance from upstream (thanks Oliver!), it could also be 3.7.

Cheers,
tony
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