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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:42:33
Message-Id: 4CE03B86.3000600@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64 by "Petteri Räty"
1 On 11/14/10 8:36 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > The IA64 arch team does not have the resources to maintain Java support so we
3 > agreed that support will be dropped unless more man power becomes available.
4
5 Could you also add the info to
6 <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/> ?
7
8 Moreover, what does dropping support mean? Are there any packages that
9 are not obviously java-related (i.e. not in dev-java), but will have
10 dropped support?
11
12 > If you are willing to help maintaining support please contact ia64@g.o.
13 > If there is no interest the removal of Java support well be done during week
14 > 50 of year 2010.
15
16 IMHO a date range would be more readable than a week number.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64 "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>