On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 19:12:01 +0200 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <po...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:12:30 +0100 Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> > wrote: > > I use pdftk regularly, and really hope we can manage to keep it in > > Debian. > > > > Is there a plan for adressing this before gcj is removed? > > There's a fork that doesn't require GCJ as Adrian pointed out, you could help > package that.
I did some work on this, there's a source and deb package prepared in https://people.debian.org/~pochu/pdftk/ This is based on upstream commit 121337af4464f3cb6b9acb3b2095d43d1453e05b. Once installed, you can run pdftk as: java -jar /usr/share/pdftk/pdftk.jar A wrapper script could be created and put into /usr/bin, or perhaps there's a better way. I'm not very familiar with Java packages. There's a problem though. If you run a more complex command it will fail to find the dependencies. It's probably missing CLASSPATH, or perhaps a dependency in the jar manifest file. Again, I'm not familiar with this to know how to fix it: $ java -jar /usr/share/pdftk/pdftk.jar mypdf.pdf burst Unhandled Java Exception in create_output(): java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/lang3/StringEscapeUtils at report.OutputXmlString(Unknown Source) at report.OutputPdfName(Unknown Source) at report.ReportInfo(Unknown Source) at report.ReportOnPdf(Unknown Source) at TK_Session.create_output(Unknown Source) at pdftk.main(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:582) at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:190) at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:499) ... 6 more Feel free to take this here, I won't do any more work on this package. I will be removing pdftk from testing soon though, in order to finish this GCJ removal transition. So if you or anyone cares about this package, you may want to get it into shape and test this port and upload it. Cheers, Emilio
