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

2018-03-16 Thread thelma 
On 03/15/2018 11:04 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On March 15, 2018 9:35:35 PM UTC, Grant Edwards  
> wrote:
>> On 2018-03-15, the...@sys-concept.com  wrote:
>>
>>> I've compiled the pdftk- (java based)
>>> gcc-5.4.0-r4 is gone and pdftk is working as it should.
>>>
>>> Thank you everybody for the help.
>>
>> That's great news!
>>
>> 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- --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---

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Thelma

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

2018-03-16 Thread thelma 
On 03/16/2018 09:42 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-03-15, Grant Edwards  wrote:
>> On 2018-03-15, the...@sys-concept.com  wrote:
>>
>>> I've compiled the pdftk- (java based)
>>> gcc-5.4.0-r4 is gone and pdftk is working as it should.
>>>
>>> Thank you everybody for the help.
>>
>> That's great news!
> 
> FWIW, I grabbed the non-gcj ebuild from my previous post and it
> installed and works without a problem (on my machine, it did pull in
> about 9 dev-java dependencies).

I've posted/reply to this but:
 https://bugs.gentoo.org/562568

So this "pdftk-" might enter the testing stage.

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Thelma

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

2018-03-15 Thread J. Roeleveld 
On March 15, 2018 9:35:35 PM UTC, Grant Edwards  
wrote:
>On 2018-03-15, the...@sys-concept.com  wrote:
>
>> I've compiled the pdftk- (java based)
>> gcc-5.4.0-r4 is gone and pdftk is working as it should.
>>
>> Thank you everybody for the help.
>
>That's great news!
>
>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.

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