Hi Guillem, On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 02:23:00AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > While going through the supported compilers and build flags recently, > I noticed that dpkg-buildflags and the various dpkg Makefile fragment > files still have support for gcj, but that compiler seems to have > stopped being maintained some time ago. According to Wikipedia > (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_for_Java>) the final > release was in 2018, and we do not even have it in Debian anymore. > > So I guess it should be fine to rip that off? A quick codesearch.d.n > didn't reveal much of a usage. But I'd like to hear whether this would > break or disrupt things, before I consider removing these. No concerns from the Debian Java team. I can't imagine any breakage, but if there is any fall-out, it would be due to cruft that we should clean up anyway. The dependency on gcj-jdk was dropped from javahelper (src:javatools) for buster [0]. Thanks for catching this. Cheers, tony [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892530
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