Migrate away from deprecated json-simple 1.x classes See json-simple 2.0.0 changelog: > * Deprecated JSONParse and JSONValue in favor of Jsoner. > * Deprecated JSONStreamAware and JSONAware in favor of Jsonable. > * Deprecated JSONObject in favor of JsonObject. > * Deprecated JSONArray in favor of JsonArray. . This patch uses the new json-simple Json* classes. It is compatible with both 2.x and 3.x json-simple releases, with a few ajustments regarding backward incompatible changes in json-simple 3.x: - The package name, changed to com.github.cliftonlabs.json_simple - The exception DeserializationExcetpion renamed as JsonException These two changes are handled using place-holders @JSON_SIMPLE_PACKAGE@ and @JSON_EXCEPTION@ which are substituted at build time by debian/rules. . With these tricks the package is compatible with json-simple 2.x and 3.x.