Hi, we have discussed the problems with mips in New York at DebConf10 last year. I believe it is time to stop supporting Java on this architecture because nobody really takes care of it. That is why I want to suggest the following radical approach, which needs to be discussed with the release team and the mips porters:
- Remove the binary packages built by openjdk-6 on mips. - Do no longer built default-jdk/jre/... on mips. - Keep gcj on mips but don't use it actively for building packages on this platform. - Remove *-jni and *-gcj packages on mips. - Change packages that could build java code optionally to skip the Java part on mips. Subversion is an example that has already been changed in such a way. And later: - Get icedtea-7-jre-jamvm built on kfreebsd-*. - Remove *-gcj packages on all architectures except for a minimal set of *-gcj packages that are needed to bootstrap openjdk. That would mean that we would no longer support Java on mips at all and in the longer term we would use gcj only to bootstrap openjdk. What do you think? Cheers, Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
