[Bug 670705] Re: Please remove glassfish from Cosmic

[Tiago Stürmer Daitx]

** Summary changed:

- Glassfish is useless, please remove
+ Please remove glassfish from Cosmic

** Description changed:

+ glassfish has been removed from Debian, is in cosmic/universe, and
+ reverse-depends reports zero packages for depends and build-depends.
+ 
+ 
+ [Original description]
  Binary package hint: glassfish-javaee
  
  The glassfish application server package(s) is useless. It does NOT
  provide a JSP application service, at all.
  
  There is no documentation on how to use it, how to start it and all it does is install useless jar files. There is
  no startup script (confirmed).
  
  Please shoot the maintainers of this set of packages, delete the
  packages from the repositories and stop wasting users' time.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #910744
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910744

** Also affects: glassfish (Debian) via
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910744
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Tags added: cosmic

** Changed in: glassfish (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Description changed:

- glassfish has been removed from Debian, is in cosmic/universe, and
- reverse-depends reports zero packages for depends and build-depends.
+ glassfish has been removed from Debian and we should proceed with its
+ removal from Cosmic as well, for both source and binaries. It is in
+ cosmic/universe and reverse-depends reports zero packages for depends
+ and build-depends.
+ 
+ $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l glassfish-toplink-essentials
+ $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l -b glassfish-toplink-essentials
+ $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l glassfish-javaee
+ $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l -b glassfish-javaee
+ $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l glassfish-jmac-api
+ $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l -b glassfish-jmac-api
+ $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l src:glassfish
+ $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l -b src:glassfish
+ 
+ As per Debian's rationale:
+ Please remove the glassfish package, this decade old version of
+ the GlassFish Application Server is no longer used and now fails
+ to build with Java 11. There is no plan to upgrade it to a more
+ recent version.
  
  
  [Original description]
  Binary package hint: glassfish-javaee
  
  The glassfish application server package(s) is useless. It does NOT
  provide a JSP application service, at all.
  
  There is no documentation on how to use it, how to start it and all it does is install useless jar files. There is
  no startup script (confirmed).
  
  Please shoot the maintainers of this set of packages, delete the
  packages from the repositories and stop wasting users' time.

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  Please remove glassfish from Cosmic

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