Hello, Maybe I am missing a point but I have the feeling that the -gcj packages are now a bit useless. gcj does not seem a very active project [1] and my perception is that not many people are using gcj packages instead of the "java package".
For example, two "famous" java packages providing -gcj version http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ant http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libsaxon-java have very low usage of the gcj package compared to the java one. So, I would like to suggest two things: 1) Update the Java policy to forbid the creation of gcj packages 2) Fill bugs on the following packages to ask their removals. ant-gcj ant-optional-gcj bsh-gcj docbook-xsl-saxon-gcj ecj-gcj eclipse-openoffice.org-core-gcj eclipse-openoffice.org-java-gcj libbcmail-java-gcj libbcpg-java-gcj libbcpkix-java-gcj libbcprov-java-gcj libbctsp-java-gcj libdb5.1-java-gcj libdb5.3-java-gcj libecj-java-gcj libitext-java-gcj libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libsac-java-gcj libsaxon-java-gcj libswt-gtk-3-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java-gcj postgresql-9.1-pljava-gcj Any opinions ? Thanks, Sylvestre [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ => last news is 2009. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
