Package: librxtx-java
Version: 2.1.7r2-3
Severity: wishlist
In the static initializer of gnu.io.RXTXPort, an exception when
initializing the static variable 'z' is silently discarded:
try {
z = new Zystem();
} catch ( Exception e ) {};
This leads to NullPointerExceptions later, which are difficult
to debug as the original exception is lost.
I did change the code to
try {
z = new Zystem();
} catch ( Exception e ) {
throw new Error(e.toString());
};
for debugging. Probably a more specific exception would be more
appropriate, but the point is that leaving z undefined without reporting
an error makes debugging unnecessarily difficult.
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages librxtx-java depends on:
ii gij [java-virtual-machine] 4:4.3-2 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii gij-4.1 [java-virtual-machine 4.1.2-19 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii gij-4.2 [java-virtual-machine 4.2.3-1 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii gij-4.3 [java-virtual-machine 4.3.0-1 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii java-gcj-compat [java-virtual 1.0.77-5 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii java-gcj-compat-headless [jav 1.0.77-5 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii sun-java6-jre [java-virtual-m 6-04-2 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (
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