Re: Deprecation of *-gcj packages
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Maybe I am missing a point but I have the feeling that the -gcj packages
> are now a bit useless.
> gcj does not seem a very active project [1] and my perception is that
> not many people are using gcj packages instead
> of the "java package".
>
> For example, two "famous" java packages providing -gcj version
> http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ant
> http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libsaxon-java
> have very low usage of the gcj package compared to the java one.
>
> So, I would like to suggest two things:
> 1) Update the Java policy to forbid the creation of gcj packages
>
> 2) Fill bugs on the following packages to ask their removals.
[...]
>
> Any opinions ?
Technically we do not need to change anything in the policy §2.4 says:
"Packages must not ship gcj-code without the permission of the Java team"
So you just need to convince the them to: `$ yes no`
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