From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove pdftk and gcc-java
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 08:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5056ce99-3fae-2088-4c61-c6c3eb860383@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <795a9a16-8d5a-b041-ae41-3001511cc716@gmail.com>
On 15/07/2016 09:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> GCJ is practically dead these days, and it has been completely dropped
> from Fedora. For that reason I didn't bother porting gcc-java to x86_64
> after seeing that work would be required to do so.
>
> The one package in the distro which still required GCJ -- namely, pdftk
> -- actually has licensing issues:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-June/001656.html
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196371.html
>
> With the recent addition of qpdf for both arches (thanks, Marco!), I
> would like to remove pdftk from the distro, and gcc-java from gcc in the
> next build. Any objections?
>
fine for me.
Regards
Marco
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-15 7:23 Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-07-15 8:51 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
[not found] ` <d23021fe-90be-93fb-f677-ea760608b4b5@acm.org>
2016-08-12 18:25 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
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