Bug#872797: RM? Abandoned upstream in 2004, FTBFS with openjdk-9, few rdeps

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Source: avalon-framework
Priority: wishlist

Could we RM this package? It was officially abandoned by upstream in
2004[1]. There was an upload to Maven Central in 2007, but it doesn't
seem to have gone through source control: the last commit was in 2004.
It FTBFS with openjdk-9, will require the source patching.

The reverse depends (in sid, today) are:

 * libfop-java (>= 1:2.1-7)

As fop is really popular, the popcon of libavalon-framework-java is
very artificially inflated. It is in the build-deps of nearly everything.

fop depends on only the configuration parser (and, in test, logging), which
I am trying to get upstream to remove[2], and have a patch for HEAD[3].

 * jmeter (2.13-3)
 * libexcalibur-logger-java (2.1-6)

jmeter upstream (3.2) has moved off this logging framework to slf4j,
dropping the dependency on avalon-framework. The logging framework has
no other rdeps, so could also be removed.

 * libtrang-java (20131210+dfsg+1-6)

libtrang upstream have also removed references to avalon-framework.

 * libjaxe-java (3.5-8)

Part of the "jaxe" XML editor, dead upstream. I'm going to have a look
at fixing it.

 * scilab-full-bin (5.5.2-5)

Pretty sure this doesn't actually depend on avalon-framework at all;
looks like it's just trying to pull it in to fix fop? I'm not entirely
sure, hard to test without rebuilding Debian's fop without avalon.


Thanks,
Chris.

1: https://avalon.apache.org/closed.html
2: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2733
3: https://github.com/apache/fop/compare/trunk...FauxFaux:trunk