Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi
>
> After having looked at kaffe I have noticed it seems lacks maintenance
> both from the Debian side but also upstream seems rather dead. We got an
> 120 days old "FTBFS" RC bug (#529872) and alternatives exists. So I
> figured perhaps it was time to retire kaffe from the repositories.
>
> I have appended a list of affected uploaders and their binary packages
> (plus four packages, which dd-list failed to look up) if we were to
> remove kaffe.
>
> I will file a bug against cdbs (and other packages I find), which uses
> kaffe as build-depends{,-indep}, if we proceed with the removal.
>
I believe that the FTBFS is fixed in 1.1.9, but since that one wasn't packaged
in
the last year or so, and OpenJDK+Zero covers most of the bases now, I think it's
OK to remove it from the repo.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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