Reporter: sebastic
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 5.57pm, Friday, 16th December 2016]

The PGHStore class causes a build failure with the latest PostgreSQL JDBC driver (9.4-1212) as reported by Lucas Nussbaum in [https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850993 Debian Bug #850993]:

/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/osmosis-hstore-jdbc/src/main/java/org/openstreetmap/osmosis/hstore/PGHStore.java:36: error: package org.postgresql.util does not exist
import org.postgresql.util.PGobject;
                          ^
/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/osmosis-hstore-jdbc/src/main/java/org/openstreetmap/osmosis/hstore/PGHStore.java:42: error: cannot find symbol
public class PGHStore extends PGobject implements Serializable, Cloneable, Map<String, String>
                              ^
  symbol: class PGobject
/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/osmosis-hstore-jdbc/src/main/java/org/openstreetmap/osmosis/hstore/PGHStore.java:52: error: cannot find symbol
        setType("hstore");
        ^
  symbol:   method setType(String)
  location: class PGHStore
3 errors
1 warning
:osmosis-hstore-jdbc:compileJava FAILED

This issue will cause the removal of the osmosis package from the upcoming Debian stable release (stretch).