Bug#276972: freeguide does not start

[Thomas Kosch]

Package: freeguide
Version: 0.8-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,
after upgrading freeguide from 0.8-1 to 0.8-2 freeguide doesnt start
anymore. Running from an xterm i get

tom@ravenclaw:~$ freeguide
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: freeguide/FreeGuide (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:537)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
tom@ravenclaw:~$

The j2re is the build from José Fonseca

Thanks

ttyl8er, t.k.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-386
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages freeguide depends on:
ii j2re1.4 [java2-runtime] 1.4.1.99rc1-2 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Envir
pn j2sdk1.4 | java-virtual-ma Not found.
ii xmltv 0.5.34-3 Functionality related to the XMLTV

-- no debconf information

[Shaun Jackman]

It's likely because I used j2sdk1.5-sun to build the package this
time. The class files must not be compatible with previous versions of
the j2re. I'll look into compiling it with backwards compatibility. In
the mean time, use freeguide 0.8-1, or upgrade to j2sdk1.5.

Cheers,
Shaun