[Bug 309411] Re: new libitext-java source needs libbcprov-java promoted to main

[Kees Cook]

Adding this to main would continue the proliferation of duplicated
crypto code.  Among other things, BC has implementations of TLS, x509,
OpenPGP, and ASN.1 parsing.  It links against none of the common system
libraries for performing these tasks, and the build does not even run
its own test suite.  I am unhappy promoting this to main just to support
PDF generation via libitext-java.

In other news, bouncycastle was embedded in the old libitext-java code
(seelibitext-java-1.4.5/com/lowagie/bc/*), so there is technically no
greater support overhead by including it.  If, while making the other
changes needed ("conversion to default-jdk"), the testsuite was also
enabled in the build, I would approve this going into main.

** Changed in: bouncycastle (Ubuntu Jaunty)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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