GCJ [was: pdftk retired?]

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/24/2014 12:48 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Andrew Haley  wrote:
>> On 03/22/2014 07:51 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Andrew Haley  wrote:
>>>> On 03/19/2014 10:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:>>
>>>>> And JDK5 might be good enough for the use required. It doesn't claim
>>>>> to be anything more than that, so I don't see the harm in leaving it there.
>>>>
>>>> Speaking as the upstream maintainer, I do.
>>>
>>> Hi Andrew, can you be a little more specific about the potential harm
>>> you see with keeping GCJ in Fedora?
>>
>> I think Rahul already answered this.  Do you expect me to
>> say something different from him?
> 
> Well, speaking of "harm", yes, I do.
> 
> Don't take me wrong. I just want to know if there is any reason beyond
> maintainer unwillingness/ lack of time.

No, I don't think there is, beyond the usual objections to leaving
packages to rot.

Andrew.