Bug 720156

Summary: Please build pdftk for EPEL 6
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
Component: pdftkAssignee: Jochen Schmitt <jochen>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 23CC: georgi.georgiev, ignacio.reguero, jochen, oget.fedora, sander
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Description Robert Scheck 2011-07-10 11:55:40 UTC
Description of problem:
Please build pdftk from Fedora 16 for EPEL 6, because I would need it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pdftk-1.44-5.fc16

Additional info:
Please let me know, if you just don't want to be the maintainer for the
pdftk EPEL 6 package...

Comment 1 Orcan Ogetbil 2011-07-10 14:21:35 UTC
Hi Robert,
I fail to understand you as I already said in the bouncycastle bug you filed.

What makes you think that this is a Fedora bug? EPEL is not a part of Fedora.

Thanks.

Comment 2 Robert Scheck 2011-07-10 14:44:04 UTC
There is no pdftk component in EPEL 6 available, that I could use to file this
report against. Finally, this is Jochen's choice, not yours...

Comment 3 Orcan Ogetbil 2011-07-10 15:26:12 UTC
ok. good luck.

Comment 4 Jochen Schmitt 2011-07-10 18:31:25 UTC
tahnk you for your interest for pdftk on EL-6.

I may try to introduce pdftk on pdftk but unfortunately there are serveral packages which are dependencies of pdftk which are not provide in EL-6, so I have to ask the owner of this packages to build them to EL-6.

Comment 5 Robert Scheck 2011-07-10 20:52:37 UTC
I know, I already opened several requests at dependent packages, but I did not
yet discover the whole path so far...

Comment 6 Jochen Schmitt 2012-01-15 20:51:36 UTC
Hallo,

At first sorry for the long delay.

Unfortunately, during the try to get pdftk into EL-6 I have got the issue, that packages which are requires for iText need the maven infrastructure to get built.
EL-6/RHEL6 doesn't contains the maven build system infrastructure, so I was unable to solve your request.

Now we have got the issue, that we can't use the system iText library for pdftk on f-17 caused by changes of the openjdk/gcj infrastructure. So I have created a bundled library exception request to FPC which should allow me to use the iText library which is bundled with pdftk. This may give me the chance to solve your request for inclussion of pdftk into EL-6.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 19:25:37 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
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Comment 9 Georgi Georgiev 2015-01-10 04:08:10 UTC
(In reply to Fedora End Of Life from comment #8)
> This message is a notice that Fedora 19 is now at end of life. Fedora 
> has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 19. It is 
> Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no 
> longer maintained. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now this bug will
> be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '19'.
> 
> Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
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> 'version' to a later Fedora version.

This bug is actually for EPEL6. Can someone really change the version to match?

Comment 10 Orcan Ogetbil 2015-01-10 04:44:02 UTC
I don't think that's possible. pdftk is gone from Fedora, along with GCJ.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196367.html

Comment 11 Robert Scheck 2015-01-10 15:10:09 UTC
Reassigning against EPEL 6 is not possible, because the package is not yet
in EPEL (no Bugzilla component available). But EPEL != Fedora and RHEL 6 is
indeed providing GCJ - and given that we never heard back from the bundling
exception request that Jochen mentioned...let's keep this open.

Comment 12 Ignacio Reguero 2015-03-04 16:29:43 UTC
I have some users requiring pdftk on the CERN Public login service currently based on SLC6.

Any chance that pdftk will be ever built for EPEL 6 ?


                  Many thanks &
                       Best regards   ...Ignacio...

Comment 13 Orcan Ogetbil 2015-03-05 03:50:25 UTC
You can grab the last SRPM and try to build it yourself, I suppose. It might need some extra work.

I don't have any knowledge about the policy for EPEL packages that are discontinued in Fedora. Maybe ask in their mailing list?

Comment 14 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 15:15:05 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

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