Control: tags -1 patch Please find attached a patch that fixes the issue. The recent update of libcommons-cli-java to version 1.3.1 introduced some changes in OptionsBuilder.java which caused this FreeCol runtime error. In general Freecol should move away from OptionsBuilder because this class is deprecated. I changed the type from File to Class, and so far the game works again.
Markus
diff -Nru freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/changelog
freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/changelog 2014-12-01 21:31:35.000000000
+0100
+++ freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/changelog 2015-09-12 00:58:29.000000000
+0200
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+freecol (0.10.7+dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Team upload.
+ * Add commons-cli-1.3.patch and fix java.lang.ClassCastException due to
+ deprecated and different methods in libcommons-cli-java version 1.3.1.
+ Thanks to Emmanuel Fleury for the report. (Closes: #798699)
+
+ -- Markus Koschany <a...@gambaru.de> Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:54:21 +0200
+
freecol (0.10.7+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Disable intro video to avoid hanging at startup (closes: #771700)
diff -Nru freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/patches/commons-cli-1.3.patch
freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/patches/commons-cli-1.3.patch
--- freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/patches/commons-cli-1.3.patch 1970-01-01
01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/patches/commons-cli-1.3.patch 2015-09-12
00:58:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From: Markus Koschany <a...@gambaru.de>
+Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:53:37 +0200
+Subject: commons cli 1.3
+
+---
+ src/net/sf/freecol/FreeCol.java | 3 ++-
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/net/sf/freecol/FreeCol.java b/src/net/sf/freecol/FreeCol.java
+index 3cdf52e..a973298 100644
+--- a/src/net/sf/freecol/FreeCol.java
++++ b/src/net/sf/freecol/FreeCol.java
+@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ public final class FreeCol {
+ private static void handleArgs(String[] args) {
+ // create the command line parser
+ CommandLineParser parser = new PosixParser();
++ final Class dummy = null;
+
+ /**
+ * Ugly hack: try to determine language first, so that usage,
+@@ -338,7 +339,7 @@ public final class FreeCol {
+ options.addOption(OptionBuilder.withLongOpt("home-directory")
+
.withDescription(Messages.message("cli.home-directory"))
+ .withArgName(Messages.message("cli.arg.directory"))
+- .withType(new File("dummy"))
++ .withType(dummy)
+ .hasArg()
+ .create());
+ options.addOption(OptionBuilder.withLongOpt("log-console")
diff -Nru freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/patches/series
freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/patches/series
--- freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/patches/series 2013-08-25 13:14:05.000000000
+0200
+++ freecol-0.10.7+dfsg/debian/patches/series 2015-09-12 00:58:29.000000000
+0200
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
10-fix-jar-path.diff
40-manpage.diff
+commons-cli-1.3.patch
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