Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: tony mancill Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.dpkg,linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Re: [RFC] Removing support for GCJ and GCJFLAGS from dpkg? Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 05:40:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Guillem Jover X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-dpkg-request@lists.debian.org Thu Aug 31 03:36:13 2023 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.6 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, PGPSIGNATURE=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YyMe6B3Dbc98IEgm14A+omXbuN5IyjwmMu24G3B/rNxtSisQ4qI 7yESuVQfNiJTYDJpFITkJyU= X-Google-SMTP-Source: AGHT+IHWz8kQHZVF9ngGEy8P8ToWbaV/5A/Y/05adVXdO2HpoQdMcgNU0J6Ra9FD2DWE14LVBn97AQ== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6a21:6d95:b0:13d:315f:26b7 with SMTP id wl21-20020a056a216d9500b0013d315f26b7mr4947934pzb.1.1693452943376; Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: robomod@news.nic.it MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MtyV6FbV6KA18GAl" Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/21074 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/ZPAKjNTrdv0hKmsi@lark Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 53 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway X-Original-Cc: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org, debian-java@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:35:40 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: X-Original-Sender: tony mancill Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.dpkg:12249 linux.debian.maint.java:12691 --MtyV6FbV6KA18GAl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > () the final > release was in 2018, and we do not even have it in Debian anymore. >=20 > 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=3D892530 --MtyV6FbV6KA18GAl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEE5Qr9Va3SequXFjqLIdIFiZdLPpYFAmTwCowACgkQIdIFiZdL Ppa9cg/+JBoazFaVw66ZANe2EE3oePGFBuvEkfbvIsyuSV4YFKz3/0kZ/c85x/Mb F+6cmomO7Nzhd0FuDMBLYHSkDPT7xDS4kTBQzxOfaAqJpYoWP8aHJguEchXUulUL 90en/pEBN5isokiFgcUIDLVI949DYSsofmyQaqeyHs7+ULKQ4BFJWtm4CiZRQCpS IdogujqC3oB1J/k468QccLFo2prgWBAP43jIZtdKHeqqXazUndkING9RCwPJ1RFY f3eiycS59q5BHQThjXGrW57r4/DV2EEbuK3S2fkep0gDWRipSwMP+mZ/74p5I0FT rHqtplndfs/wHxoK3J89y8PbmZtSRU5Tlbz2JCDI9ICifpafIt+xJAkBOMIvrV6y fBXz9gtNB7cIgPAaqqjyXnezNal9j/RA43UivF62hRzSy+JdTcFT9OB9GN7UoCMf Jt/nTbnLj9yr4YUNjmypNBeAMuWp0M3SfVZLu4ttbulzmEQXPB242yOW03Sus/u0 8mS2hTjjTd4JIO7oxhpv2G7ENjp4wL870BnoVWE+ZjkyPDiOliVOOA1rW05v6lM3 +QexTblxWts/y4Y696eut/uwCtAI0dJYuDTx6QgiybRpal55TorxmvUkqyFC8L9P vUrHfhID5Ge/ra462Wn2BopJIxQzehfNyqzcGZ2eEfvHhAwwqjs= =tFEt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MtyV6FbV6KA18GAl--