On 03/19/2014 10:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
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On 03/08/2014 03:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
Sorry I am missing something. Why can't we keep the old pdftk that works with itext2?
Check the whole thread - because of GCJ dependency. iText is second issue. The first could be fixed by rewrite of offending part of code to Java but someone would have to do it first. That's how I understand this situation.
The only things I read in the thread are "GCJ is abandoned" and "we really want to get rid of GCJ". Am I supposed to come to the conclusion that the GCJ package is dropped from Fedora? If so, where is this decision made? Why was it made without consulting GCJ users?
The problem is more to do with upstream maintainership. If GCJ is to be used in the future it needs to be updated to a current version of the Java class library, but that's a lot of work. GCJ is still a pretty good compiler for the Java language, but it's stuck at JDK5 (ish).
And JDK5 might be good enough for the use required. It doesn't claim to be anything more than that, so I don't see the harm in leaving it there.
Speaking as the upstream maintainer, I do.
Andrew.