Please remove orp

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

Package: ftp.debian.org

Please remove orp.

RoQA; broken, out of date, better alternatives available


* Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> [2004-03-13 12:03]:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:18:39PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > Orp is very broken and has been for quite a while.
> 
> > (for example, bugs 128732, 185881, 236118, 168536)
> 
> I looked into this a while ago - it appears to have been abandoned by
> upstream.  It's probably possible to fix it to use TLS instead of
> peering inside glibc 2.2 internals.
> 
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* tbm <tbm@cyrius.com> [2004-03-14 21:10]:
> * Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> [2004-03-13 12:03]:
> > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:18:39PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > > Orp is very broken and has been for quite a while.
> > > (for example, bugs 128732, 185881, 236118, 168536)
> > 
> > I looked into this a while ago - it appears to have been abandoned by
> > upstream.  It's probably possible to fix it to use TLS instead of
> > peering inside glibc 2.2 internals.
> 
> Is anyone working on this or is this just wishful thinking?
> 
> Takashi, are you working on this issue or should the package just be
> removed?
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> Martin Michlmayr
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* Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> [2004-03-14 21:16]:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 09:10:53PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> [2004-03-13 12:03]:
> 
> > > I looked into this a while ago - it appears to have been abandoned by
> > > upstream.  It's probably possible to fix it to use TLS instead of
> > > peering inside glibc 2.2 internals.
> 
> > Is anyone working on this or is this just wishful thinking?
> 
> Not as far as I know.
> 
> -- 
> "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
> 
> 
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* Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org> [2004-03-15 15:29]:
> Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 09:10:53PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> >> * Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> [2004-03-13 12:03]:
> >
> >> > I looked into this a while ago - it appears to have been abandoned by
> >> > upstream.  It's probably possible to fix it to use TLS instead of
> >> > peering inside glibc 2.2 internals.
> >
> >> Is anyone working on this or is this just wishful thinking?
> >
> > Not as far as I know.
> 
> 1° it's in contrib
> 
> 2° no upload since Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:28:33 +0900
>    http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/contrib/o/orp/orp_1.0.9-1/changelog
> 
> 3° last upstream update 2002-05-24 00:00
>    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25513
> 
> 4° only exists on i386
> 
> 5° at the moment, orp runs with gnu/classpath so it seems to be a
>    virtual machine for java, we already have several JVM in main
> 
> HTH, Cheers,
> 
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