On Tuesday 19 October 2010 at 22:51 Ray Rashif wrote: > > There's currently a very out of date openjdk development version package > > here: > > > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14671 > > > > It's also currently orphaned and doesn't build any more. However, there's > > quite a lot of information in there and though it would probably normally > > be deleted for being very out of date, orphaned and no longer building > > on a current system, I don't want to delete it due to the work that's > > obviously gone into it. This would probably have to be redone if and > > when someone wanted an openjdk development package. > > > > It should be probably renamed openjdk-dev and given some love... does > > anyone who knows more about building Java fancy taking it under their > > wing? Otherwise, I suppose that we can just leave it orphaned for such a > > time as someone does... > > I don't see what's so special about this to keep. It implies > partiality and that's not good. We have openjdk6 for reference if > anyone wants to maintain a similar package.
Yeah, this is a good point. Okay, I'll delete it then. Pete.
