[RFC] Remove pdftk and gcc-java

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 08:51:00 GMT 2016


On 15/07/2016 09:23, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> GCJ is practically dead these days, and it has been completely dropped
> from Fedora.  For that reason I didn't bother porting gcc-java to x86_64
> after seeing that work would be required to do so.
>
> The one package in the distro which still required GCJ -- namely, pdftk
> -- actually has licensing issues:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-June/001656.html
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196371.html
>
> With the recent addition of qpdf for both arches (thanks, Marco!), I
> would like to remove pdftk from the distro, and gcc-java from gcc in the
> next build.  Any objections?
>

fine for me.

Regards
Marco



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