Re: pdftk retired?

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:

> pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because it's a C++ program that
> uses a Java library (iText) through CNI.  I once tried to rewrite
> the C++ part in Java, but the existing command line parser is quite
> involved, so I didn't quite get there.
> 
> Switch to pdftk version 2 doesn't change the basic architecture of
> the program.
> 
> (We really want to get rid of GCJ.)

An additional reason is the fact, that pdftk2 may depend on iText5 or later.
For licensing reasons Fedora only provides iText-2.1.7 at the last release 
of iText wihout any known licensing issues.

That are the two reasons why I'm not able to support pdftk on Fedora 
anymore and was forced to reitred this package. I'm sorry for nayone
who maintaining any package with dependencies on this package.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt
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