On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Maybe I am missing a point but I have the feeling that the -gcj packages > are now a bit 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 > > 2) Fill bugs on the following packages to ask their removals. [...] > > Any opinions ?
Technically we do not need to change anything in the policy ยง2.4 says: "Packages must not ship gcj-code without the permission of the Java team" So you just need to convince the them to: `$ yes no` -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+7wuswgocq_-x7iecgdes3-yeuk-_mwrl5uguagh5kqwf3...@mail.gmail.com
