[RFC] Remove pdftk and gcc-java

[RFC] Remove pdftk and gcc-java

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

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?

-- 
Yaakov Selkowitz

Re: [RFC] Remove pdftk and gcc-java

[Marco Atzeri]

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

Re: [RFC] Remove pdftk and gcc-java

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-07-15 12:13, David Rothenberger wrote:
> Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> 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 with me.

pdftk has been removed from the distro.

Jon, whenever you next build gcc anyway, please disable java.  The 
necessary changes should be available here:

https://github.com/cygwinports/gcc

-- 
Yaakov