Considering removal of kaffe

[Niels Thykier]

Hi

After having looked at kaffe I have noticed it seems lacks maintenance
both from the Debian side but also upstream seems rather dead. We got an
120 days old "FTBFS" RC bug (#529872) and alternatives exists. So I
figured perhaps it was time to retire kaffe from the repositories.

I have appended a list of affected uploaders and their binary packages
(plus four packages, which dd-list failed to look up) if we were to
remove kaffe.

I will file a bug against cdbs  (and other packages I find), which uses
kaffe as build-depends{,-indep}, if we proceed with the removal.


~Niels


James Damour (Suvarov454) <suvarov454 at users.sourceforge.net>
   filler

Kumar Appaiah <akumar at debian.org>
   libcommons-httpclient-java (U)

Wolfgang Baer <WBaer at gmx.de>
   japitools (U)
   libcommons-codec-java (U)
   libcommons-jxpath-java (U)
   libcommons-launcher-java (U)
   libconcurrent-java (U)
   libgetopt-java (U)
   libjama-java (U)
   libjmock-java (U)
   libjts-java (U)
   libsnmp1.4-java (U)
   libvecmath1.2-java (U)
   libwerken.xpath-java (U)
   libxpp2-java (U)
   libxt-java (U)
   velocity (U)

Marcus Better <marcus at better.se>
   libbackport-util-concurrent-java (U)
   libcommons-pool-java (U)
   libdom4j-java (U)
   libxpp3-java (U)

Daniel Bonniot <bonniot at users.sf.net>
   nice

Paul Cager <paul-debian at home.paulcager.org>
   jflex (U)

Ludovic Claude <ludovic.claude at laposte.net>
   libbackport-util-concurrent-java (U)
   libxpp3-java (U)
   velocity (U)

Sam Clegg <samo at debian.org>
   proguard

Paul Cupis <paul at cupis.co.uk>
   doctorj

Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   libjts-java

Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   japitools
   jflex
   jlgui
   jmp
   libbackport-util-concurrent-java
   libcommons-codec-java
   libcommons-collections3-java
   libcommons-configuration-java
   libcommons-httpclient-java
   libcommons-jxpath-java
   libcommons-launcher-java
   libcommons-net-java
   libcommons-pool-java
   libconcurrent-java
   libdom4j-java
   libgetopt-java
   libgnucrypto-java
   libilf-java
   libjama-java
   libjexcelapi-java
   libjmock-java
   libnsuml-java
   libsnmp1.4-java
   libvecmath1.2-java
   libwerken.xpath-java
   libxpp2-java
   libxpp3-java
   libxt-java
   velocity

Peter Eisentraut <petere at debian.org>
   kdissert

Morten Werner Forsbring <werner at debian.org>
   libsnmp1.4-java (U)

Barry Hawkins <barry at alltc.com>
   libcommons-httpclient-java (U)

Adam Heath <doogie at brainfood.com>
   libcommons-pool-java (U)

Varun Hiremath <varun at debian.org>
   jlgui (U)
   libcommons-collections3-java (U)
   libcommons-httpclient-java (U)

Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx.de>
   jmp (U)
   libdom4j-java (U)

Trygve Laugstøl <trygvis at inamo.n>
   libjmock-java (U)

Markus Loeberbauer <Loeberbauer at ssw.jku.at>
   coco-java

Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie at debian.org>
   libjts-java (U)

Damien Raude-Morvan <drazzib at drazzib.com>
   libcommons-codec-java (U)
   libcommons-pool-java (U)
   libjzlib-java

Piotr Roszatycki <dexter at debian.org>
   henplus

Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
   jflex (U)

Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk at debian.org>
   jflex (U)
   libcommons-codec-java (U)
   libcommons-collections3-java (U)
   libcommons-httpclient-java (U)
   libcommons-jxpath-java (U)
   libcommons-launcher-java (U)
   libcommons-net-java (U)
   libcommons-pool-java (U)
   libgetopt-java (U)
   libgnucrypto-java (U)
   libnsuml-java (U)
   libwerken.xpath-java (U)
   libxt-java (U)
   velocity (U)

Rémi Vanicat <vanicat at debian.org>
   realtimebattle-common

Torsten Werner <twerner at debian.org>
   jlgui (U)
   libcommons-codec-java (U)
   libcommons-configuration-java (U)
   libcommons-net-java (U)
   libilf-java (U)
   libjexcelapi-java (U)
   libxpp3-java (U)

Jesper Zedlitz <jesper at zedlitz.de>
   librelaxng-datatype-java

Plus the following "unknown packages":
 E: Unknown package: libdom1-javalibxp-java
 E: Unknown package: libicu4j-javalibslide-webdavclient-java
 E: Unknown package: libgnujmi-javalibi18n-java
 E: Unknown package: libpja-java


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