I've just been looking through my packager-dashboard page. A depressingly large chunk of my packages are going to become unbuildable on Monday when a bunch of orphaned Java packages are retired. I think a lot of us are going to be affected. In my case, there are quite a few non-Java packages involved (due to the parser generators antlr3 and antlr4-project), primarily OCaml and python packages. Mikolaj has a huge pile of work on his shoulders, so don't take this as criticism of him. Here are some of the pain points: - log4j will be retired, which will break ant. - hamcrest2 will be retired, which will break apache-commons-lang3, which will break bcel, which will also break ant. - google-gson and javassist will be retired, which will break reflections, which will break jna, which is used by about a dozen packages, including bcel. - maven-install-plugin will be retired, which will break tycho, which will break eclipse. - args4j will be retired, which will break jacoco and jgit. - maven-invoker-plugin and several of its dependencies (maven-doxia-sitetools, plexus-velocity, maven-reporting-api, maven-script-interpreter, and maven-reporting-impl) will be retired, which will break xml-maven-plugin, which is used by eclipse. - jakarta-el and jakarta-server-pages will be retired, which will break eclipse. - aopalliance will be retired, which will break maven-native. - jdependency will be retired, which will break maven-shade-plugin, which is used by openjfx8, a dependency of java-1.8.0-openjdk. - apache-ivy will be retired, which will break javapackages-tools. I have packages that depend directly on the following, so I am willing to adopt them if nobody more competent shows up (although there is no point in taking ant-contrib if ant is going to be broken anyway): - ant-contrib - jakarta-common-httpclient - jakarta-ws-rs - maven-invoker-plugin - spec-version-maven-plugin I introduced the jansi1 and jline2 packages so that jansi could be moved to 2.x and jline to 3.x, but I don't actually maintain any packages that need the old versions. I would like to give them away to someone who needs them, but note that you will need to grab jansi-native as well, before Monday! Has anybody already done something about any of these packages (and my packager-dashboard page just hasn't caught up yet)? Is anybody planning to do something about any of these packages before they are retired on Monday? -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
