[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: pdftk - replacement

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-03-16, thelma@×××××××××××.com <thelma@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On 03/15/2018 11:04 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:

>>> Instead of removing pdftk from the portage tree because it depends on
>>> gcc-5.4 [gcj], is there any reason it can't be replace by the one
>>> which uses a jvm instead?
>>
>> Someone needs to maintain it as well.
>
> From the "pdftk-9999 --help"
> -----quote----------
> AUTHOR
>        Sid Steward (sid.steward at pdflabs dot com) maintains pdftk.  Please
>        email him with questions or bug reports.  Include pdftk in the
> subject
>        line to ensure successful delivery.  Thank you.
> -----end quote-------

Sid Steward is the "maintainer" of the original Java/C++ version of
pdftk that lives at https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/.

The last change was almost 5 years ago, so I think it's safe to assume
it's been abandoned.

What needs maintaining for the new ebuild is

 1) The new java-only upstream version of pdftk that lives at
    https://gitlab.com/marcvinyals/pdftk/

 2) The ebuild itself

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