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

Barry deFreese bdefreese at debian.org
Mon May 11 21:22:36 UTC 2009


Eric Lavarde wrote:
> 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 been superseded by xerces2 since ages (also upstream).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
>
>
I'm certainly fine with that.  Any comment from the Java Maintainers?  
I'm happy to file the RM: if you would like.

Thanks,

Barry deFreese
Debian QA





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