freeplane fails to start in ubuntu 16.10 amd64

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

Confirmed on two computers (16.10 amd64) after upgrade to 1.5.16-1.

"touch $HOME/exports" does not solve the problem.

hello Kenichiro,
hello Ivan,

a knopflerfish update has broken freeplane. I can reproduce this and I am working with
debian-java to fix this.

Thanks for the report and Best Regards,
Felix

The fix is in unstable, in a few days it will be in Ubuntu 16.10.

The fix is now in Debian testing, but seems it doesn't migrate to Ubuntu 16.10.
Can somebody please trigger this? History shows that the ubuntu-motu people do not respond.

Cheers and Best Regards,
Felix

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

hello users,

could someone please download the fixed knopflerfish deb from here:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/libknopflerfish-osgi-framework-java/download
and install it using
$ sudo dpkg -i libknopflerfish-osgi-framework-java_5.2.0-2_all.deb
and report back whether freeplane starts with this?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Felix

hello Felix,

I tried.

$ wget http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/knopflerfish-osgi/libknopflerfish-osgi-framework-java_5.2.0-2_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libknopflerfish-osgi-framework-java_5.2.0-2_all.deb

And it works when run the freeplane!

Dear Ubuntu maintainers,

I am the freeplane package maintainer for Debian. As you can see in this
bug report, freeplane in Ubuntu 16.10 is broken due to a broken
knopflerfish-osgi 5.2.0-1 update (synced too early [1]), and the (proposed)
fix is to sync knopflerfish-osgi 5.2.0-2 (as 5.2.0-1.1) from
Debian testing/unstable to Ubuntu 16.10.

ubuntu-motu suggested to create a SRU for this, which I am requesting now.

[Impact]
Freeplane fails to load OSGi bundles because the knopflerfish jar misses an
"exports" file. The other r-dep of knopferfish-osgi (libwoodstob-java) is a
library that should fail as well (the "exports" file is needed and was
present before the broken upload in 5.1.0+dfsg1-3's knopflerfish.jar!). The
fix in knopflerfish 5.2.0-2 is to generate a file "exports" during the
build.

[Test Case]
- Install freeplane:
$ sudo apt-get install freeplane
- run freeplane:
$ freeplane
--> it will fail to start (for the exact exception log, see above)
Ubuntu 16.10 users affected by the bug have confirmed that freeplane starts
with the fix (see above).

[Regression Potential]
There could _possibly_ be another issue in Ubuntu's knopflerfish-osgi 5.2.0-2,
and in this case, r-deps of knopflerfish-osgi would still not work.
But since they currently do not work, there is nothing to lose.

Attached is a debdiff between knopflerfish-osgi 5.2.0-1 and 5.2.0-2
(Debian). As suggested by #ubuntu-motu, I changed the changelog
entry to 5.2.0-1.1, for Ubuntu 16.10.

Please tell me if I'm missing anything. Freeplane has quite a few users,
and I would like to make this package functional in Ubuntu 16.10.

[1] Can we do something about this?

Cheers and Best Regards,
Felix

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Let's wait until the fixed package is synced into zesty in a few days and then a sponsor can upload it to yakkety-proposed. Sorry about the delay, things happening around the release time are always vulnerable to this.

This bug was fixed in the package knopflerfish-osgi - 5.2.0-2

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knopflerfish-osgi (5.2.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.
  * Restored the exports file in the jar (Closes: #840130, LP: #1631361)

 -- Emmanuel Bourg <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Oct 2016 01:10:45 +0200

@Michael: I've already prepared an SRU for yaketty, see above.
But basically, we just need to sync knopflerfish-osgi 5.2.0-2 to yaketty,
which is low-risk as described by the debdiff above.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Felix

@felix & michael, well, i can open my existing ".mm" files anyway. Many thanks! yes, i fully agree with your observation;
"Freeplane has quite a few users, and I would like to make this package functional in Ubuntu 16.10."

Freeplane will see many more users since freemind was stopped in 16.04. I too was a freemind user & found the recommendation to migrate to freeplane. Thanks again felix & michael. Couldn't hv done it w/o you guys!

Hi, I've uploaded 5.2.0-2 to yakkety (as 5.2.0-1ubuntu0.1). Sorry for the delay! Now you get to wait for the SRU team to review it :)

Hello KenichiroMATOHARA, or anyone else affected,

Accepted knopflerfish-osgi into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knopflerfish-osgi/5.2.0-1ubuntu0.1 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, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

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

Just updated packages from yakkety-proposed and freeplane now starts and seems to work as expected.

Thank you very much.
Best regards. JBF

Great! Did you mean to add the verification-done tag? Or is someone else going to do more verification?

From my comment #21 : Added tag verification-done

Best regards. JBF

Huh strange, I don't see that in my email. Oh well.

hello Michael,

is there something that I have to do to get the update into yaketty-updates?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Felix

It's waiting for someone on the SRU team to accept the package into
-updates, that should happen soon but I can't give any firm dates, sorry.

On 20 November 2016 at 20:47, Felix Natter <email address hidden> wrote:

> hello Michael,
>
> is there something that I have to do to get the update into yaketty-
> updates?
>
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> Felix
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This bug was fixed in the package knopflerfish-osgi - 5.2.0-1ubuntu0.1

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knopflerfish-osgi (5.2.0-1ubuntu0.1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Backport 5.2.0-2 to 16.10. (LP: #1631361)

 -- Michael Hudson-Doyle <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Nov 2016 08:17:01 +1300