jabref not installable on ppc

TTBOMK JabRef doesn't work with any of the free Java VMs that are packaged in Debian; it should work with icedtea in Ubuntu but I can't add that to the Depends: of the Debian package because it's not yet in Debian.

What you can do is grab my dummy sun-java-package from http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/debian/unstable/sun-java-jre-dummy_0.1_all.deb , install it manually (sudo dpkg -i sun-java-jre-dummy_0.1_all.deb) to make the jabref package happy and then use icedtea or any other Java VM that works for you.

As soon as icedtea appears in Debian I'll add it.

This bug was fixed in the package jabref - 2.3.1-5ubuntu1

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jabref (2.3.1-5ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable. (LP: #225450, #227125)
  * Remaining changes:
    - debian/control
      * Change build dependency default-jdk-builddep to default-jdk.
      * Change run time dependency to default-jre | java2-runtime.
        There is no evidence that it does not run with latest Free JVMs.
        (LP: #164216, #194509)
      * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
        specification.
    - debian/rules
      * Change JAVA_HOME for default-jdk.

jabref (2.3.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Change runtime dependency from "sun-java6-jre | sun-java5-jre" to
    "openjdk-6-jre | sun-java6-jre | sun-java5-jre" (closes: #383006).
    [Jabref stays in contrib because it (build) depends on libspin-java and
    libpdfbox-java which are in contrib because they build depend on packages
    in contrib/non-free.]
  * debian/copyright: wrap long line.

jabref (2.3.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Replace /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea with /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk in
    wrapper script. Doesn't work on Debian yet but helps Ubuntu users (cf.
    LP: #225450 and LP: #203636).
  * debian/watch: use sourceforge URL directly instead of the redirector
    at qa.debian.org.
  * Switch patch system from dpatch to quilt.
  * debian/rules: remove configure{,-stamp} targets.
  * Set Standards-Version to 3.8.0; add debian/README.source to document the
    patch system.
  * Add patch 06_forms_groups.patch to fix an exception in the groups
    interface; thanks to Monkey D. Luffy for the bug report and to Philipp
    Spitzer for helping me to produce a patch (closes: #487481).

jabref (2.3.1-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Build against Debian libraries instead of pre-packaged ones
    (closes: #389068):
    - adapt and reactivate patch 02_libs.dpatch: use libraries in
      /usr/share/java for building and don't include them in jabref.jar
    - add needed jars to Classpath in the wrapper script
    - add patch 05_antlr.dpatch: antlr3 in Debian is newer than the
      pre-packaged jar
    - add necessary packages to Build-Depends-Indep and Depends
    These changes are either taken directly from Gerardo Curiel's patch or
    based on them -- thanks a lot!
  * debian/watch: add uversionmangle to cope with upstream b(eta) releases.
  * Move wrapper script in source package to debian/jabref-wrapper and
    install it from debian/rules.
  * Remove debian docs and install upstream README directly from
    debian/rules.
  * debian/control:
    - change my email address
    - replace java-gcj-compat-dev with default-jdk-builddep in
      Build-Depends-Indep

jabref (2.3.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Change pdfviewer to pdf-viewer in Suggests:.
  * Set Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
  * debian/rules: explicitly set JAVA_HOME.
  * Only set JAVA to $JAVA_HOME/jre/bin/java if JAVA_HOME is not empty;
    thanks to Michael Piefel for the hint.
  * Set debhelper compatibility level to 6.

 -- Onkar Shinde <email address hidden> Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:51:41 +0530