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Hi,

The package pdftk no longer builds on arm [1], because gcj-4.2 cannot
be built on arm [2]. The upstream developers of gcj-4.2 introduced
a patch to support armel, but it broke arm support and they do not
intend to fix it, as armel is intended to be a better alternative to
arm anyway. Please also notice that pdftk builds fine on armel [3].

Therefore, as the maintainer of pdftk, I announce the drop of pdftk
arm support. Can you please remove the current *_arm.deb from unstable,
so that pdftk will be able to migrate to testing? Thanks.

Cheers,

[1] 
<http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=pdftk;ver=1.41-1;arch=arm;stamp=1195284921>
[2] 
<http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=gcj-4.2;ver=4.2.2-3;arch=arm;stamp=1192521050>
[3] 
<http://experimental.debian.net/fetch.php?&pkg=pdftk&ver=1.41-1&arch=armel&stamp=1195689331&file=log&as=raw>
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