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[RFC] Removing support for GCJ and GCJFLAGS from dpkg?

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From	Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
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Subject	[RFC] Removing support for GCJ and GCJFLAGS from dpkg?
Date	Thu, 31 Aug 2023 02:30:02 +0200
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Hi!

While going through the supported compilers and build flags recently,
I noticed that dpkg-buildflags and the various dpkg Makefile fragment
files still have support for gcj, but that compiler seems to have
stopped being maintained some time ago. According to Wikipedia
(<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_for_Java>) the final
release was in 2018, and we do not even have it in Debian anymore.

So I guess it should be fine to rip that off? A quick codesearch.d.n
didn't reveal much of a usage. But I'd like to hear whether this would
break or disrupt things, before I consider removing these.

Thanks,
Guillem

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[RFC] Removing support for GCJ and GCJFLAGS from dpkg? Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2023-08-31 02:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC] Removing support for GCJ and GCJFLAGS from dpkg? tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org> - 2023-08-31 05:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC] Removing support for GCJ and GCJFLAGS from dpkg? Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2023-08-31 19:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC] Removing support for GCJ and GCJFLAGS from dpkg? Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2023-09-01 12:00 +0200

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