[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#777114: RM: gridengine/6.2u5-7.3

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 09:44:46AM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: rm
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> gridengine is RC buggy and effectively unmaintained (see the
> discussion in #776131).
> 
> There's an offer to upgrade the package to new upstream and we have a
> new healthy upstream available, but it's not going to happen for
> jessie.
> 
> Ccing logol maintainer who would be affected by the removal, so he can
> act and prepare logol build without drmaa support in timely manner.

For completeness: Another option would be to keep the gridengine
sourcepackage and just only built libdrmaa-java.

Regards,
Salvatore