Re: Considering removal of kaffe
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:53:22PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi
>
> After having looked at kaffe I have noticed it seems lacks maintenance
> both from the Debian side but also upstream seems rather dead. We got an
> 120 days old "FTBFS" RC bug (#529872) and alternatives exists. So I
> figured perhaps it was time to retire kaffe from the repositories.
>
> I have appended a list of affected uploaders and their binary packages
> (plus four packages, which dd-list failed to look up) if we were to
> remove kaffe.
>
> I will file a bug against cdbs (and other packages I find), which uses
> kaffe as build-depends{,-indep}, if we proceed with the removal.
Yes, we need to remove kaffe. I think we dont need bugs against te packages
maintained by pkg-java. I will work on them and remove (build-)deps on kaffe
in the next days.
While I see this list: we also need to remove Wolfgang from Uploaders. I will
also take care of this.
Cheers,
Michael
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