On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 15:30 -0600, Jerry James wrote: > 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. I may take these 4 > - maven-install-plugin will be retired, which will break tycho, which > will break eclipse. Eclipse for me may fall, I already use eclipse installer from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ > - 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 can also take these two jdependency and apache-ivy . maybe I should also take maven-invoker-plugin . what do you think ? > 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 -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ 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
