* [RFC] Remove pdftk and gcc-java
@ 2016-07-15 7:23 Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-07-15 8:51 ` Marco Atzeri
[not found] ` <d23021fe-90be-93fb-f677-ea760608b4b5@acm.org>
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From: Yaakov Selkowitz @ 2016-07-15 7:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
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
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* Re: [RFC] Remove pdftk and gcc-java
2016-07-15 7:23 [RFC] Remove pdftk and gcc-java Yaakov Selkowitz
@ 2016-07-15 8:51 ` Marco Atzeri
[not found] ` <d23021fe-90be-93fb-f677-ea760608b4b5@acm.org>
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From: Marco Atzeri @ 2016-07-15 8:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
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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* Re: [RFC] Remove pdftk and gcc-java
[not found] ` <d23021fe-90be-93fb-f677-ea760608b4b5@acm.org>
@ 2016-08-12 18:25 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
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From: Yaakov Selkowitz @ 2016-08-12 18:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
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
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