On removing libgoogle-collections-java from Debian (superseeded by libguava-java)

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Hi,


According to upstream's homepage[1], google-collections has been
replaced by guava[2].  Allegedly, guava should be backwards compatiable
with google-collections[1].
  We only have a handful of packages[3] left still depending on
libgoogle-collections-java and I intend to file bugs for these so we can
remove libgoogle-collections-java.

~Niels

[1] http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/

[2] https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/

[3] Dak says:

"""
[...]
Checking reverse dependencies...
# Broken Depends:
checkstyle: checkstyle
gwt: libgwt-dev-java
maven-plugin-tools: libmaven-plugin-tools-java
plexus-containers: libplexus-containers-java
plexus-containers1.5: libplexus-containers1.5-java
uima-addons: libuima-addons-java

# Broken Build-Depends:
checkstyle: libgoogle-collections-java (>= 1.0~rc2)
maven-plugin-tools: libgoogle-collections-java
plexus-containers: libgoogle-collections-java (>= 1.0)
plexus-containers1.5: libgoogle-collections-java
uima-addons: libgoogle-collections-java
[...]
"""