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

[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