floodlight FTBFS (error: package org.jboss.netty.* does not exist)

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

floodlight 0.90+dfsg-0ubuntu4 currently fails to build on Zesty with lots of error message related to org.jboss.netty.* classes. See below for a sample or https://launchpadlibrarian.net/298783247/buildlog_ubuntu-zesty-amd64.floodlight_0.90+dfsg-0ubuntu4_BUILDING.txt.gz for a complete build log.

It looks like the netty package has been updated to a new major version (4.x) since floodlight was intially packaged, and this might be the underlying cause for these errors. I see from https://github.com/floodlight/floodlight/releases that there has been several new releases of floodlight, including https://floodlight.atlassian.net/wiki/display/floodlightcontroller/Floodlight+v1.2 which mentions updated to netty 4. Maybe packaging a newer release would fix the issues?

Sample compilation errors:

compile:
    [javac] Compiling 356 source files to /<<BUILDDIR>>/floodlight-0.90+dfsg/target/bin
    [javac] warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.6
    [javac] /<<BUILDDIR>>/floodlight-0.90+dfsg/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/core/internal/Controller.java:76: error: package org.jboss.netty.bootstrap does not exist
    [javac] import org.jboss.netty.bootstrap.ServerBootstrap;
    [javac] ^
    [javac] /<<BUILDDIR>>/floodlight-0.90+dfsg/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/core/internal/Controller.java:77: error: package org.jboss.netty.buffer does not exist
    [javac] import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
    [javac] ^
    [javac] /<<BUILDDIR>>/floodlight-0.90+dfsg/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/core/internal/Controller.java:78: error: package org.jboss.netty.buffer does not exist
    [javac] import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffers;
    [javac] ^
    [javac] /<<BUILDDIR>>/floodlight-0.90+dfsg/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/core/internal/Controller.java:79: error: package org.jboss.netty.channel does not exist
    [javac] import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
    [javac] ^

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This was originally packaged by James Page, and seems to be unmaintained for the past several cycles. James, if floodlight is no longer important to have in Ubuntu (not important enough for someone to fix its build failure), could you please reassign this bug to ~ubuntu-archive and change the bug title to a removal request?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Removing packages from artful-proposed:
 floodlight 0.90+dfsg-0ubuntu4 in artful
Comment: unmaintained, unbuildable since zesty; LP: #1652766
Remove [y|N]? y
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