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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-benchmarks/jmeter, java-virtuals/javamail, dev-java/{gnu-classpath-inetlib,gnu-javamail,sun-javamail}
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:40:36
Message-Id: 20170829234011.5b630854@symphony.aura-online.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-benchmarks/jmeter, java-virtuals/javamail, dev-java/{gnu-classpath-inetlib,gnu-javamail,sun-javamail} by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:26:33 -0400
2 "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:35:25 +0100
5 > James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > # James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> (29 Aug 2017)
8 > > # The FOSS-friendly oracle-javamail has rendered other implementations
9 > > # and the virtual obsolete. Removal in 30 days. See bug #553186.
10 > > dev-java/gnu-classpath-inetlib
11 > > dev-java/gnu-javamail
12 > > dev-java/sun-javamail
13 > > java-virtuals/javamail
14 >
15 > Oracle javamail is no more, so need to add a couple more
16 >
17 > +dev-java/oracle-javamail
18 > +dev-java/javax-mail (duplicate package added by mistake)
19 >
20 > Both the same as sun-javamail and since renamed to just javamail.
21 > Final name change....
22 > https://github.com/javaee/javamail
23
24 Thanks for that. We started this ball rolling a while ago so I should
25 have checked the current situation. This is getting a bit ridiculous
26 but hopefully this really is the final time. I'll add javax-mail to the
27 list and see if we can handle oracle-javamail -> javamail as a package
28 move.
29
30 --
31 James Le Cuirot (chewi)
32 Gentoo Linux Developer

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