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

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Hi Guillem,

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 02:23:00AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> 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.

No concerns from the Debian Java team.  I can't imagine any breakage,
but if there is any fall-out, it would be due to cruft that we should
clean up anyway.  The dependency on gcj-jdk was dropped from javahelper
(src:javatools) for buster [0].

Thanks for catching this.

Cheers,
tony

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892530

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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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