RM: removal of gcj-4.3 and java-gcj-compat from unstable
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Please remove gcj-4.3 and java-gcj-compat from unstable.
gcj is still used on hppa, kfreebsd and hurd(?), all other architectures use
openjdk-6 as the default java. the platforms above work ok-ish such that
packages can be built, although with workarounds. gcj-4.4 looks better on these
platforms than 4.3. If we need an alternative for gcj-4.4 I'd rather package
gcj-4.5 derived from the gcc-snapshot package just building the c, c++ and java.
All versioned dependencies on java-gcj-compat are fixed/removed [1], the
gcj-jre, gcj-jre-headless and gcj-jdk packages provide the old java-gcj-compat
packages. java-gcj-compat should be removed together with gcj-4.3.
Matthias
[1]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=jgc-vdep;users=debian-java@lists.debian.org
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