Orphaning java-1.5.0-gcj

Deepak Bhole dbhole at redhat.com
Fri Apr 11 18:00:27 UTC 2014


* Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> [2014-04-07 13:29]:
> On 04/07/2014 03:23 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >> There have been a few discussions about this in the past but no action.
> >> With feature freeze approaching for F21, I think this is a good time to
> >> address this.
> >>
> >> I will be orphaning java-1.5.0-gcj in Fedora on April 8th. If anyone
> >> wants to take over, please let me know. Please do keep in mind though
> >> that we really should just remove GCJ (despite the effect it will have
> >> on pdftk) as preferred by one of the primary authors of it (Andrew
> >> Haley):
> > 
> > How does this affect the bring up of new architectures, I seem to
> > remember when doing the various variants of ARM we needed this for
> > bringup of the newer releases, is that still the case or is there
> > other means of achieving that?
> 
> As of JDK8, OpenJDK can be cross-compiled.  Not before time, either.
> 

Ownership released, package retired in rawhide. I accidentally hit retire
on F20 as well. I'll get that addressed, as we will support it for the
length for F19/20.

Deepak

> Andrew.
> 
> 


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