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Re: Removing freeplane 1.7.x from Debian?

From	Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.java
Subject	Re: Removing freeplane 1.7.x from Debian?
Date	2024-04-01 09:00 +0200
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tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 04:53:17PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:
>> Dear java team,
>>
>> the current freeplane package only works with an old JRE [1].
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeplane/+bug/2034752
>>
>> I think that not many users figure out how to set JAVA_CMD or
>> FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME, and even if they did, it would be a security risk
>> due to an old JRE. I cannot package freeplane 1.11.x because it requires
>> gradle >= 7.x.
>>
>> Since it is easy to install the upstream .deb...
>> - https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/
>> - select "Files"
>> - select "freeplane stable"
>> - select freeplane_1.11.11~upstream-1_all.deb
>> - install with "sudo apt install
>>   /path/to/freeplane_1.11.11~upstream-1_all.deb"
>>
>> ... I wonder whether it is better to remove freeplane now?
>> What do you think?
>
> Hi Felix,

hello Tony,

> In my opinion we should be remove the outdated freeplane package from
> Debian.

the only thing that speaks against this is the user comment in #1030150
[1]. Is it true that "as Debian (and many derivates) still ship with old
JDK"? [2]

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1030150#25
[2] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=jre&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all

Cheers and Best Regards,
Felix

--
Felix Natter
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Removing freeplane 1.7.x from Debian? Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> - 2024-03-31 17:00 +0200
  Re: Removing freeplane 1.7.x from Debian? tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org> - 2024-03-31 20:40 +0200
    Re: Removing freeplane 1.7.x from Debian? Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> - 2024-04-01 09:00 +0200
      Re: Removing freeplane 1.7.x from Debian? Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> - 2024-04-07 15:40 +0200
    Re: Removing freeplane 1.7.x from Debian? Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2024-04-06 11:20 +0200
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