On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 04:53:17PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:
> Dear java team,
> 
> the current freeplane package only works with an old JRE [1].
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeplane/+bug/2034752
> 
> I think that not many users figure out how to set JAVA_CMD or
> FREEPLANE_JAVA_HOME, and even if they did, it would be a security risk
> due to an old JRE. I cannot package freeplane 1.11.x because it requires
> gradle >= 7.x.
> 
> Since it is easy to install the upstream .deb...
> - https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/
> - select "Files"
> - select "freeplane stable"
> - select freeplane_1.11.11~upstream-1_all.deb
> - install with "sudo apt install
>   /path/to/freeplane_1.11.11~upstream-1_all.deb"
> 
> ... I wonder whether it is better to remove freeplane now?
> What do you think?

Hi Felix,

In my opinion we should be remove the outdated freeplane package from
Debian.

Cheers,
tony

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