Bug#528081: xerces-j: Please remove build-dep on jikes

[Eric Lavarde]

Hi,

sounds to me that the best resolution would be to remove xerces-j as 
well: no software depends on it (says 'apt-cache showpkg'), and it's 
been superseded by xerces2 since ages (also upstream).

I'm no DD but let me know if I can help.

Eric

Barry deFreese wrote:
> Package: xerces-j
> Version: 1.4.4-4
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> jikes is orphaned, unmaintained, and buggy and therefore we are trying
> to remove it from the archive.  xerces-j currently
> build-depends on jikes.  Could you please try to build with one of the
> other java compilers and remove the jikes build-depends?  I've tried it 
> with openjdk-6-jdk and it seems to work fairly well but does still have 
> some issues.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Barry deFreese
> Debian QA