htsjdk - FTBFS: error: package org.testng does not exist

[Andreas Moog]

 affects ubuntu/htsjdk
 affects debian/htsjdk
 assignee https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877590
 done

htsjdk fails to build from source in Ubuntu Artful::

/<<BUILDDIR>>/htsjdk-2.8.1+dfsg/src/test/java/htsjdk/samtools/reference/ReferenceSequenceTests.java:27: error: package org.testng does not exist
import org.testng.Assert;
                 ^
/<<BUILDDIR>>/htsjdk-2.8.1+dfsg/src/test/java/htsjdk/samtools/reference/ReferenceSequenceTests.java:28: error: package org.testng.annotations does not exist
import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
                             ^
/<<BUILDDIR>>/htsjdk-2.8.1+dfsg/src/test/java/htsjdk/samtools/reference/ReferenceSequenceTests.java:29: error: package org.testng.annotations does not exist
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
[...]
100 errors
4 warnings
:compileTestJava FAILED
:compileTestJava (Thread[Task worker Thread 6,5,main]) completed. Took 1.28 secs.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':compileTestJava'.
> Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.

See the full buildlog at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/htsjdk/2.8.1+dfsg-1

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