pdfsam won't run, has missing and conflicting dependencies

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Works with Java from Oracle, does not work with OpenJava.

Backporting libhibernate-validator-java didn't work as expected. While the 4.3.4-1 deb binary from Focal (when it was still devel) works fine, it no longer builds as it depended on jboss-logging 3.3. The newer jboss-logging 3.4 does not provide the same classes and it has too many reverse (build) dependencies to be feasible to downgrade.

Going the other way and updating libsejda-java to rely on libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java requires some new dependencies (see debian bug 942507):
* libel-api-java
* an el-api implementation, usually Glassfish, but it is not yet packaged, thus tomcat9-jasper-el.jar can be used
* libhibernate-validator-java >= 5.3.6-2 (as 5.3.6-1 is missing some runtime dependencies)

The first 2 dependencies come from libhibernate-validator-java 5.3.6, but they are expected to be automatically provided by the Java EE environment and don't show up as actual dependencies. Since pdfsam run Java SE it must provide them.

This bug was fixed in the package pdfsam - 4.0.4-1ubuntu1

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pdfsam (4.0.4-1ubuntu1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Add dependency on el-api and libtomcat9-java, require newer
    libsejda-java and libhibernate-validator-java. (LP: #1887142)

 -- Tiago Stürmer Daitx <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:40:25 +0000

> Moving from 1.0 to 1.1 spec might cause regressions on packages that depend on libsejda-java as now el-api (and its implementation) must be available on the classpath (default on Java EE). At this time the only package that depends on libsejda-java is pdfsam.

Is it possible that any Ubuntu users consume libsejda-java directly, and thus would be regressed by bumping it to to the 1.1 spec?

> Is it possible that any Ubuntu users consume libsejda-java directly, and thus would be regressed by bumping it to to the 1.1 spec?

Thanks for catching this. I updated the regression to include:
 Ubuntu users consuming libsejda-java directly can
 regress if something else in their dependency chain
 currently relies on spec 1.0 - they would need to
 update these dependencies to also use spec 1.1.

I don't know how I could/should evaluate how bad this is compared to having a non-working package such as pdfsam, so I would appreciate any feedback related to the SRU process on such decisions (maybe just having the regressions described is good enough?).

> I don't know how I could/should evaluate how bad this is compared to having a non-working package such as pdfsam, so I would appreciate any feedback related to the SRU process on such decisions (maybe just having the regressions described is good enough?).

Just whatever best effort you can manage. I don't think there's any specific objective measure that can be used. Thank you for noting this in the bug description. I think describing these are important because if a user does get regressed, it does help that they can find out that we considered their case when making a decision.

In this case I think that given no such user is known and no other packages in the archive use libsejda-data the likelyhood of regression in this manner is unlikely, so bumping this is the least worst option to fix pdfsam (which surely has many more direct users).

Hello Thomas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libsejda-java into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsejda-java/3.2.84-2~20.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Thomas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted pdfsam into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pdfsam/4.0.4-1ubuntu2~20.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Verified pdfsam 4.0.4-1ubuntu2~20.04 and libsejda-java 3.2.84-2~20.04 from focal-proposed.

I confirm that PDFSam now works for splitting and merging PDF files.

pdfsam:
  Installed: 4.0.4-1ubuntu2~20.04
  Candidate: 4.0.4-1ubuntu2~20.04
  Version table:
 *** 4.0.4-1ubuntu2~20.04 400
        400 http://localhost:9999/ubuntu focal-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.0.4-1 500
        500 http://localhost:9999/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
libsejda-java:
  Installed: 3.2.84-2~20.04
  Candidate: 3.2.84-2~20.04
  Version table:
 *** 3.2.84-2~20.04 400
        400 http://localhost:9999/ubuntu focal-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.2.84-1 500
        500 http://localhost:9999/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages

This bug was fixed in the package pdfsam - 4.0.4-1ubuntu2~20.04

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pdfsam (4.0.4-1ubuntu2~20.04) focal; urgency=medium

  * Backport from Groovy.

pdfsam (4.0.4-1ubuntu2) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Add dependency on libtomcat9-embed-java and require newer
    libsejda-java and libhibernate-validator-java. (LP: #1887142)

 -- Tiago Stürmer Daitx <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Sep 2020 03:52:16 +0000

This bug was fixed in the package libsejda-java - 3.2.84-2~20.04

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libsejda-java (3.2.84-2~20.04) focal; urgency=medium

  * Backport from Groovy.
  * Fix incompatibility with libhibernate-validator-java by also
    building against libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java. LP: #1887142.

libsejda-java (3.2.84-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.
  * Depend on libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java
    instead of libgeronimo-validation-1.0-spec-java
  * Standards-Version updated to 4.5.0
  * Switch to debhelper level 12

 -- Tiago Stürmer Daitx <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 02:11:44 +0000

The verification of the Stable Release Update for pdfsam has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

works fine for me on Groovy
corrado@corrado-x2-gg-1009:~$ apt policy pdfsam
pdfsam:
  Installed: 4.0.4-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 4.0.4-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 4.0.4-1ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
corrado@corrado-x2-gg-1009:~$