I have look quickly into the changes, and it is no so trivial to fix this
legacy code.
I agree, there is very little chance that anyone as ever used that legacy
API.
So, +1 to remove.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:22 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> With the upgrade of BouncyCastle to version 1.52 the
> xwiki-platform-legacy-crypto-script legacy module doesn’t build anymore
> since BC has removed deprecated code.
>
> We have of course the option to try to fix the legacy code to use newer
> APIs.
>
> However I think this is overkill and not needed because I don’t believe
> this legacy code was ever used (Caleb, the author of it, seems to agree
> with this).
>
> See the comments at http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-794
>
> Thus, according to our rules, I’m sending this VOTE to decide to break
> this API voluntarily by removing this legacy module.
>
> Here’s my +1
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>
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