pdftk retired?

[Florian Weimer]

On 03/06/2014 11:31 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> As for pdftk: I see 2 failed builds for version 1.45 and none for the
> current version 2.02 (which probably breaks the api anyways). What are
> the plans? Retire pdftk completely? Start fresh with pdftk2?

pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because it's a C++ program that uses 
a Java library (iText) through CNI.  I once tried to rewrite the C++ 
part in Java, but the existing command line parser is quite involved, so 
I didn't quite get there.

Switch to pdftk version 2 doesn't change the basic architecture of the 
program.

(We really want to get rid of GCJ.)

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team