Re: Deprecation of *-gcj packages
Am 12.04.2013 13:41, schrieb Sylvestre Ledru:
> Hello,
>
> Maybe I am missing a point but I have the feeling that the -gcj packages
> are now a bit useless.
no. why should they be 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
no. why?
> 2) Fill bugs on the following packages to ask their removals.
no. at least all of these needed to build stuff should stay. including ecj and ant.
Maybe to clear your perception, please start getting OpenJDK supported on more
platforms. E.g. mips, kfreebsd, and the Hurd.
Matthias
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