On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 08:12 +0100, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > popcon showed only 62 installations with only 5 recent users. The last > update was in 2012 which means it would likely struggle with Java 8, given > Java 8 hadn't been released at that time.
Could you file a bug upstream about the issues you found using it with Java 8 class files? > While I probably could have CC'd the Java list, I did have an important > severity bug on the package for more than a month before requesting removal, > stating that I would request removal to give anyone interested a chance to > register their interest. Your bug report was probably only seen by the inactive maintainer, when filing removal bugs against packages with inactive maintainers it is usually pointless to send it at all without CCing at least upstream and the wider Debian community around the language or package (debian-java) > This was a very clear candidate for removal from Debian, as it was not a > high quality package, due to it being outdated and so not supporting the > latest language features, and no one was stepping forward to improve it. Since the package wasn't orphaned I doubt anyone would have even noticed these indicators of low quality so it isn't surprising no-one stepped forward to help work on it. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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