Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Emmanuel Bourg Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist,linux.debian.maint.java Subject: Bug#895066: RM: libgnu-regexp-java -- ROM; No longer used, superseded by standard Java APIs Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Fri Apr 6 22:27:10 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.96 Reply-To: Emmanuel Bourg , 895066@bugs.debian.org Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-Cc: ebourg@apache.org, debian-java@lists.debian.org, Debian FTP Master X-Debian-Pr-Message: report 895066 X-Debian-Pr-Package: ftp.debian.org X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 11; hammy, 81; neutral, 35; spammy, 1. spammytokens:0.952-+--H*r:bugs.debian.org hammytokens:0.000-+--HX-Debbugs-Cc:sk:debian-, 0.000-+--H*M:reportbug, 0.000-+--H*MI:reportbug, 0.000-+--H*x:reportbug, 0.000-+--H*UA:reportbug Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: reportbug 7.1.10 X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1452845 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 13 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:23:18 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <152305339856.18942.8752194999713653097.reportbug@icare.ariane-software.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:891425 linux.debian.maint.java:10401 Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, Please remove the libgnu-regexp-java package. This regular expression library for Java is no longer used in Debian and is dead upstream. Java has gotten its own standard regular expression API in 2002 and there is little hope this library will be useful again. Thank you, Emmanuel Bourg