Re: A Round of Removals
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 17:06, Adam Heath wrote:
> On 26 Oct 2002, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>
> > > An RC bug with a one-line patch in the BTS for 158 days? Surely someone
> > > cares more about kaffe. If not, perhaps gcj and sablevm will provide
> > > replacement functionality.
> >
> > I think kaffe is a very important package and have a new upstream
> > version waiting for maintainer.
> >
> > In BTS exist a mail about someone (I can't remember the name) want
> > maintain and care about this package. I like ;)
>
> The kaffe maintainer is my boss. He's had a new package available for 1.0.7,
> but it had a few rough spots(it almost runs ant. However, since he compiled
> it for native threads, Process.exec doesn't work).
>
> I suggested making 2 packages to solve this. I also suggested splitting up
> kaffe better into -common and -dev pkgs.
>
> He hasn't yet done any of these. I'll pester him again when I see him.
When you do, let him know that a NMU is in DELAYED/3-day with the fix to
this bug.
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