Update of java-gnome in breezy-backports and dapper

[Nathaniel McCallum]

Because GNOME 2.12 isn't in Debian unstable yet, java-gnome has been held back in debian. However, there has been quite a bit of progress on java-gnome since then. Thus, java-gnome should be updated in (particularly) dapper and (possibly) breezy-backports. Some reference packages can be found here: http://www.natemccallum.com/uploads/debs/ and some other (non-packaged) possible packages for inclusion could be java-dbus, libgtkhtml-java, libvte-java, and libgtkmozembed-java.

[Martin Bergner (martin-bergner)]

Is this still a problem with Dapper/Edgy?

[Nathaniel McCallum (nmccallum)]

no

[R. A. Rivas Diaz (rivasdiaz)]

At this moment java-gnome packages can't be fully installed in Edgy.
Also some available packages have released new versions.

This libraries:
libglib-java, libcairo-java, libgtk-java, libgconf-java are installable, and are up to date.

libgnome-java can't be installed, has an old version.
  - libgnome-java depends on libgnome-jni
    - libgnome-jni can't be installed because it depends on libgcj7 (which is wrong)
      - libgcj7 does not exist. Was renamed to libgcj7-0
  - Last released version is 2.12.5, current available version in repos is 2.12.3

libglade-java can't be installed, has an old version.
  - libglade-java depends on libgnome-java, which can't be installed.
  - Last released version is 2.12.6, current available version in repos is 2.12.4

libvte-java is not available in repos.
  - Last released version is 0.12.1

libgtkmozembed-java is not available in repos.
  - Last released version is 1.7.0

libdbus-java (not part of Java Gnome) is not available in repos.
  - Last released version is 1.9.
  - Only compatible with Java 5, an old version compatible with Java 1.4

JNI packages should not depend on any component of GCJ, but on java-virtual-machine (and maybe Java2-runtime) which is provided by GNU GIJ, Blackdown J2RE 1.4 and Sun Java 5. With any of this packages, the JNI packages will work.

Java packages should also depend on java-virtual-machine and java-runtime.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Is this still a problem with Feisty or Gutsy ?

[xylo (stefan-endrullis)]

Yes, there is still a problem. In Gutsy there is no package called "java-gnome". Are there any replacements for it?

Well, I only want to use DBus within Java and I need the package dbus-java for that. But dbus-java only exists in Debian releases (lenny and sid). I couldn't find it in any Ubuntu releases. But why? Why do I have to download such packages from packages.debian.org? I always thought, all debian packages would also be in the ubuntu repository.

This bug report is a little bit out of date. Is it better to create a new bug report, something like "dbus-java missing in Gutsy and Hardy"?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

It fails to build: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10084091/buildlog_ubuntu-hardy-i386.libdbus-java_1.12-1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbus-java

[xylo (stefan-endrullis)]

I don't know why the build fails, but I'm wondering why Ubuntu is still trying to build the old version 1.12-1 of libdbus-java, but in Debian you can find version 2.x since the beginning of 2007:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/contrib/d/dbus-java/dbus-java_2.3.1-1/changelog

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Seems it was renamed to dbus-java. I asked for a sync and removal of libdbus-java. However this is out of scope of this bug report.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Is this still a problem in Intrepid or Jaunty (with dbus-java)?

[xylo (stefan-endrullis)]

Intrepid does not have any package called dbus-java or something similar.

In Jaunty there are the packages "dbus-java-bin" and libdbus-java. I haven't tested them, because I'm not working dbus anymore. But I suppose they are OK and this issue can be closed, since there is no one going to backport this package to gutsy, hardy, or intrepid.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Thank you for the feedback, based on your comment I will close this bug as it no longer seems applicable to current versions of Ubuntu.