[Fwd: [Bug 471811] RfE: Need CNI sub package to resurrect pdftk]

[Andrew Overholt]

Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug?  I have heard
of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available
in Fedora.

Andrew

-------- Forwarded Message --------
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471811
>  
>  
>  Orcan 'oget' Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com&gt; changed:
>  
>             What    |Removed                     |Added
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>               Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
>           Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  --- Comment #9 from Orcan 'oget' Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com&gt; 
> 2009-01-24 21:37:32 EDT ---
>  Well, nobody stepped up to patch neither itext nor pdftk to make pdftk link to
>  our itext dynamically. This task is rather involved as it will require JNI
>  knowledge and possibly some java fixes within pdftk which might be incompatible
>  with the current version of itext and bouncycastle we have. I am no java
>  programmer.
>  
>  But I got several user requests at fedoraforum to package pdftk. We can do this
>  at rpmfusion. If someone does the necessary work (and keeps doing it for every
>  itext update), we'll drop pdftk from rpmfusion and put it back here.
>  
>  Jochen, would you like to do the packaging at rpmfusion (I will review it
>  there) or do you want me to do it?
>  
>  Closing the bug as WONTFIX.

[Andrew Haley]

Andrew Overholt wrote:
>  Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug?  I have
> heard
>  of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available
>  in Fedora. 
Well, I understand CNI well enough but I can't understand what the problem
is supposed to be.

Andrew.


>  -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471811
> >
> >
> > Orcan 'oget' Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com&gt; changed:
> >
> >            What    |Removed                     |Added
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >              Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
> >          Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Comment #9 from Orcan 'oget' Ogetbil <oget.fedora(a)gmail.com&gt; 
> 2009-01-24 21:37:32 EDT ---
> > Well, nobody stepped up to patch neither itext nor pdftk to make pdftk link to
> > our itext dynamically. This task is rather involved as it will require JNI
> > knowledge and possibly some java fixes within pdftk which might be incompatible
> > with the current version of itext and bouncycastle we have. I am no java
> > programmer.
> >
> > But I got several user requests at fedoraforum to package pdftk. We can do this
> > at rpmfusion. If someone does the necessary work (and keeps doing it for every
> > itext update), we'll drop pdftk from rpmfusion and put it back here.
> >
> > Jochen, would you like to do the packaging at rpmfusion (I will review it
> > there) or do you want me to do it?
> >
> > Closing the bug as WONTFIX.
>  
>  --
>  fedora-devel-java-list mailing list
>  fedora-devel-java-list(a)redhat.com
>  https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list

[Andrew Overholt]

* Andrew Haley <aph(a)redhat.com&gt; [2009-02-02 07:45]:
>  Andrew Overholt wrote:
>  > Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug?  I have heard
>  > of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available
>  > in Fedora.
>  
>  Well, I understand CNI well enough but I can't understand what the problem
>  is supposed to be. 
I'll try to explain it as I understand it:

- pdftk is compiled by gcj using the C++ ABI, direct to native code
- iText is compiled to bytecode (and GCJ AOT .sos)
- pdftk used to bundle its own copy of iText; this isn't allowed by Fedora
- pdftk needs iText to provide a C++-style .so for linking

HTH,

Andrew

[Andrew Haley]

Andrew Overholt wrote:
>  * Andrew Haley <aph(a)redhat.com&gt; [2009-02-02 07:45]:
> > Andrew Overholt wrote:
> >> Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug?  I have heard
> >> of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available
> >> in Fedora.
> > Well, I understand CNI well enough but I can't understand what the problem
> > is supposed to be.
>  
>  I'll try to explain it as I understand it:
>  
>  - pdftk is compiled by gcj using the C++ ABI, direct to native code
>  - iText is compiled to bytecode (and GCJ AOT .sos)
>  - pdftk used to bundle its own copy of iText; this isn't allowed by Fedora
>  - pdftk needs iText to provide a C++-style .so for linking 
OK, so all we need is a version of iText that is suitable for CNI.  Is there
any reason not to add a subpackage of iText which provides such a thing?
Apart from the effort of doing it, I mean; I just wonder if there is any
technical reason why not.

Andrew.

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Andrew Haley  wrote:
>  Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > * Andrew Haley  [2009-02-02 07:45]:
> >> Andrew Overholt wrote:
> >>> Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug?  I have heard
> >>> of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available
> >>> in Fedora.
> >> Well, I understand CNI well enough but I can't understand what the problem
> >> is supposed to be.
> >
> > I'll try to explain it as I understand it:
> >
> > - pdftk is compiled by gcj using the C++ ABI, direct to native code
> > - iText is compiled to bytecode (and GCJ AOT .sos)
> > - pdftk used to bundle its own copy of iText; this isn't allowed by Fedora
> > - pdftk needs iText to provide a C++-style .so for linking
>
>  OK, so all we need is a version of iText that is suitable for CNI.  Is there
>  any reason not to add a subpackage of iText which provides such a thing?
>  Apart from the effort of doing it, I mean; I just wonder if there is any
>  technical reason why not.
>  
No, there's no other reason. I asked for this many times and nobody
with CNI knowledge was willing to do it. As I stated before, I will be
glad to give  comaintainership in pkgdb to anyone who wants to show
the effort.

By the way, again as I stated before, itext needs bouncycastle,
bouncycastle-mail, pdf-renderer and dom4j. So those will probably need
to be CNI'ed as well. I'm the maintainer of the first 3 and can grant
comaintainership for them, but not for dom4j.

Orcan

[Andrew Overholt]

* Andrew Haley <aph(a)redhat.com&gt; [2009-02-02 12:52]:
>  Andrew Overholt wrote:
>  > - pdftk is compiled by gcj using the C++ ABI, direct to native code
>  > - iText is compiled to bytecode (and GCJ AOT .sos)
>  > - pdftk used to bundle its own copy of iText; this isn't allowed by Fedora
>  > - pdftk needs iText to provide a C++-style .so for linking
>  
>  OK, so all we need is a version of iText that is suitable for CNI. 
Correct.

>  Is there any reason not to add a subpackage of iText which provides
>  such a thing? 
Not that I can think of.

Andrew