** Summary changed: - Glassfish is useless, please remove + Please remove glassfish from Cosmic
** Description changed: + glassfish has been removed from Debian, is in cosmic/universe, and + reverse-depends reports zero packages for depends and build-depends. + + + [Original description] Binary package hint: glassfish-javaee The glassfish application server package(s) is useless. It does NOT provide a JSP application service, at all. There is no documentation on how to use it, how to start it and all it does is install useless jar files. There is no startup script (confirmed). Please shoot the maintainers of this set of packages, delete the packages from the repositories and stop wasting users' time. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #910744 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910744 ** Also affects: glassfish (Debian) via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=910744 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Tags added: cosmic ** Changed in: glassfish (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Description changed: - glassfish has been removed from Debian, is in cosmic/universe, and - reverse-depends reports zero packages for depends and build-depends. + glassfish has been removed from Debian and we should proceed with its + removal from Cosmic as well, for both source and binaries. It is in + cosmic/universe and reverse-depends reports zero packages for depends + and build-depends. + + $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l glassfish-toplink-essentials + $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l -b glassfish-toplink-essentials + $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l glassfish-javaee + $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l -b glassfish-javaee + $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l glassfish-jmac-api + $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l -b glassfish-jmac-api + $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l src:glassfish + $ reverse-depends -r cosmic -l -b src:glassfish + + As per Debian's rationale: + Please remove the glassfish package, this decade old version of + the GlassFish Application Server is no longer used and now fails + to build with Java 11. There is no plan to upgrade it to a more + recent version. [Original description] Binary package hint: glassfish-javaee The glassfish application server package(s) is useless. It does NOT provide a JSP application service, at all. There is no documentation on how to use it, how to start it and all it does is install useless jar files. There is no startup script (confirmed). Please shoot the maintainers of this set of packages, delete the packages from the repositories and stop wasting users' time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670705 Title: Please remove glassfish from Cosmic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glassfish/+bug/670705/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
