On 2020-12-23 16 h 44, Markus Koschany wrote: >> Adrian Bunk says a large part of the Java ecosystem seems to >> transitively depend on jruby, so I guess all those things are Bad™. > > Is there a quick way to determine what is the "large part of the Java > ecosystem"? I don't think jruby is really that important. When I run > > > reverse-depends -b jruby > > or > apt-cache rdepends jruby > > only libspring-java and libfreemarker-java look like relevant packages. > > >> Is there someone that could take a look at this package? It's really out >> of my field of expertise and I don't think I'll be able to help :S >> >> PS: I'm not currently subscribed to this list, so please keep me in CC. > > If nobody steps forward to maintain jruby, I am more in favor of making r-deps > less dependent on jruby. I am quite sure in most cases support for jruby is > optional but not essential.
Ah, maybe that's what it is yes, I haven't looked at the rdepends very hard, I just saw it was a key package. If re-working the r-deps is the solution, so be it, but it would be a shame, as I need jruby to package Puppet 6 :( -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ po...@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄
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