diff -Nru batik-1.8/debian/changelog batik-1.8/debian/changelog
--- batik-1.8/debian/changelog	2015-09-12 20:28:41.000000000 +0000
+++ batik-1.8/debian/changelog	2016-01-04 13:20:33.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+batik (1.8-3ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1~ppa201601041320) xenial; urgency=medium
+
+  * No-change backport to xenial
+
+ -- James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:20:33 +0000
+
+batik (1.8-3ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * d/control: Demote runtime dependency on fop to Suggests to support
+    demotion of fop to universe.
+
+ -- James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:47:16 +0000
+
 batik (1.8-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Mathieu Malaterre ]
diff -Nru batik-1.8/debian/control batik-1.8/debian/control
--- batik-1.8/debian/control	2015-09-12 20:18:43.000000000 +0000
+++ batik-1.8/debian/control	2016-01-04 12:47:45.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: batik
 Section: java
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Wolfgang Baer <WBaer@gmx.de>,
            Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>,
            Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde@ubuntu.com>
@@ -32,7 +33,8 @@
          libxml-commons-external-java,
          libxmlgraphics-commons-java (>= 2.0.1),
          ${misc:Depends}
-Recommends: default-jre, fop (>= 1:0.94), rhino
+Recommends: default-jre, rhino
+Suggests: fop (>= 1:0.94)
 Breaks: elki (<= 0.6.5), libfop-java (<< 2.0)
 Description: xml.apache.org SVG Library
  Batik is a toolkit for applications or applets that want to use images