Please update the package to version 1.7

Debian seems to include a fairly outdated package 1.6-3, while upstream has 1.7beta1 available.

Batik has failed to build for long time. Check bug #150484
I am currently working on 1.7 version which will be available in intrepid.

This bug was fixed in the package batik - 1.7.dfsg-0ubuntu1

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batik (1.7.dfsg-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Onkar Shinde ]
  * New upstream version (LP: #147818)
  * debian/control
    - Add Sun JDK 1.5 as build dependency. Fixes FTBFS on buildd. (LP: #150484)
      Also add Sun JRE as runtime dependencies.
    - Add ant-optional as build dependency.
    - Add libxml-commons-external-java and libxmlgraphics-commons-java as
      build and runtime dependencies.
    - Add 'Homepage' field and correct the url.
    - Change standards version to 3.8.0.
    - Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
      specification.
  * debian/rules
    - Change JAVA_HOME_DIRS for Sun JDK.
    - Add jar file names to DEB_JARS to match new build requirements.
    - Extract version from changelog.
    - Delete bundled jar files in clean target.
    - Don't use hardcoded version in install target.
    - Add get-orig-source target.
  * debian/README.Debian-source
    - Change the fo tag name to the one used for this version.
  * debian/watch
    - Change expression to match src distribution.
  * debian/patches/
    - 01_build_xml.patch, 02_fix_jar_target.patch - Refresh for current source.
    - 03_fix_lib_dirs.patch - Fix the library and classpath references needed
      for pdf transcoder build.
    - 04_fix_transcoder_pkg.patch - Fix transcoder-pkg target to not copy
      files from other jar files.

  [ Matvey Kozhev ]
  * debian/changelog:
    - Added ".dfsg" to version.
  * debian/control, debian/rules:
    - Build with openjdk-6-jdk, depend on openjdk-6-jre.
    - Added java-6-sun as an alternate build JAVA_HOME directory.
    - Fixed get-orig-source to not include debian/ and delete the source dir,
      and made it delete jars from lib/, as done in the current batik package.
  * debian/wrappers.sh:
    - Changed java-7-icedtea reference to java-6-openjdk, as the former has been
      removed back in Hardy.
    - Added newline.
  * debian/libbatik-java.install:
    - Added newline.

 -- Matvey Kozhev <email address hidden> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:03:05 +0700