http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/fedora

Jiri Vanek jvanek at redhat.com
Thu Oct 3 10:21:25 PDT 2013


On 10/03/2013 04:36 PM, Jacob Wisor wrote:
> Andrew Hughes wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> just asking out of curiosity: Does anybody still use this repo? It has
>>> not been touched since August 30, 2007. I suppose that the Fedora
>>> Project has found some other location for keeping their OpenJDK rpm
>>> build system.
>>
>> As part of Fedora itself, presumably.
>>
>>> I believe jpackage.org to be it. If so I would like to
>>> propose marking this repo to be removed.
>>
>> What would be the point in that?
>
> Cleanup. ;) Besides, this repo does not seem to be maintained ergo it is probably useless unless some historian has interest in it. Anyway, even if somebody were really interested in it, it would probably require some unreasonable amount of work to get it up to date and would also mean double work because of Fedora's already existing up-to-date rpm build system.
>
>> It would just destroy history.
>
> As long as other repos do not reference change sets in this repo - which they probably do not - dropping it should do no harm.
>
> The reason I am asking is simply because I appreciate clean systems, repos, sources, etc. free of ballast. It makes life easier. ;)
> I do know that people usually do not have time for this but in effect it really aids progress.
>

+1 for removing



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