I picked up jakarta-commons-httpclient in an attempt to keep ant-contrib building. That proved impossible, so I removed all dependencies on ant-contrib from packages I maintain instead. That means I don't need jakarta-commons-httpclient, so I am orphaning it again.
These packages still depend on it: ant-contrib fop
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 19:10, Jerry James loganjerry@gmail.com wrote:
I picked up jakarta-commons-httpclient in an attempt to keep ant-contrib building. That proved impossible, so I removed all dependencies on ant-contrib from packages I maintain instead. That means I don't need jakarta-commons-httpclient, so I am orphaning it again.
Honestly anything that requires jakarta-commons-httpclient should be blacklisted. This library has been EOL and unmaintained for a *decade* and contains all manner of problems.
This package should be retired and dependents should be ported to httpcomponents-client or retired also.
On 8/20/21 12:09 PM, Jerry James wrote:
I picked up jakarta-commons-httpclient in an attempt to keep ant-contrib building. That proved impossible, so I removed all dependencies on ant-contrib from packages I maintain instead. That means I don't need jakarta-commons-httpclient, so I am orphaning it again.
These packages still depend on it: ant-contrib fop
THe fop dependency appears to have just been left in the spec file. It's been removed with the 2.6 build just done.
+1 to Matt's comment - this package is ancient and needs to go. Likewise I expect for ant-contrib. I've retired java-sleep -> moconti which are also dead upstream and were users of ant-contrib.
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