Comment 4 for bug 150484

I had contacted the Debian maintainer (Vincent Fourmond) about this. His reply is pasted below.
I think we'll have to look into this again ourselves, since it does not appear that we can sync from Debian.
This needs to follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#head-1d28045481b8803d4815989e93edc4206f4848c4, which I'm not very keen to do myself, since I'm not using batik at all.. if you want to have batik in Hardy, please go ahead.

On Feb 5, 2008 3:59 AM, Daniel Hahler wrote:
> > Michael Koch told me, that your are working on the new batik package.
> >
> > I've looked into this myself, since it FTBFS in Ubuntu since the
> > beginning, because sun-java's license gets not accepted in the buildds.
> >
> > So I've tried building batik 1.6 with icedtea-java7, but it failed
> > (because of missing java classes).
> > Then I've tried the current upstream release 1.7, which works.
> >
> > Because I have at least a get-orig-source target for debian/rules, I
> > thought to let you know about it.
> >
> > I've uploaded the package to
> > http://codeprobe.de/spool/debian/batik_1.7-0ubuntu1.dsc
> >
> > Please take a look at it and tell me what you think about it.

  I'll have a look at that sometime soon, many thanks !

      Vincent

PS: icedtea is not out of NEW yet, so I'll have to wait before it gets
to unstable.