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

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Feb 2 12:45:19 UTC 2009


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 at gmail.com> changed:
>>
>>            What    |Removed                     |Added
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>              Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
>>          Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Comment #9 from Orcan 'oget' Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com>  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.
> 
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