Phasing out redundant java compilers/runtimes

[Daniel Holbach]

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Onkar Shinde schrieb:
> As per my discussion with ´persia´ on #ubuntu-motu channel I am
> proposing here removal of redundant java compilers/runtimes. The focus
> of this mail is sun-java5-* packages and kaffe.
> Reasons for phasing out sun-java5-* and kaffe.
> 1. sun-java5-* packages are superceeded by sun-java6-* and any program
> that runs with sun-java5-jre shgould also run with sun-java6-jre.
> 2. kaffe is quite outdated (correct me if I am wrong). The Free java
> compiler of choice these days is GCJ, since icedtea is yet work in
> progress and GCJ is quite mature.
> 
> The path to achive this should be as follows.
> 1. Find packages that have ´Build-Depends' or ´Build-Depends-Indep´ on
> kaffee or sun-java5-jdk.
> 2. Try to build the packages with one of the GCJ
> (java-gcj-compat-dev), sun-java6-jdk, icedtea-java7-jdk.
> 3. Once all the packages are migrated remove both kaffe and
> sun-java5-* packages.
> 
> I am planning to complete this process in Hardy release cycle itself.
> 
> Please let me know your comments and suggestions.

Not sure if Matthias Klose (doko) is on ubuntu-motu at lists.u.c - CCing him.

Have a nice day,
 Daniel
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