Hi everyone, I'm writing to say that I intend to retire the following packages:
* findbugs * findbugs-bcel * findbugs-contrib * eclipse-findbugs The rationale behind this is: * The last FindBugs release was in March 2015 [1]. * Upstream has been dead since 2016 [2]. * The project was forked in 2017 [3] as SpotBugs [4]. * FindBugs depends on an old snapshot of Apache Commons BCEL (packaged as findbugs-bcel). I don't think it's possible (or worthwhile) to get FindBugs to build against upstream BCEL. * It no longer builds against the latest rawhide versions of ASM and Hamcrest. * Trying to maintain FindBugs and keep it building/working against the latest versions of Java libraries isn't really a good use of anyone's time (and there is no upstream to contribute patches back to). * findbugs-contrib (known upstream as fb-contrib [5]) is a FindBugs plugin that provides additional detectors, and is of no use without FindBugs itself. * Likewise, eclipse-findbugs makes FindBugs available in the Eclipse IDE, and is of no use without FindBugs being available. As far as I can tell, nothing else depends on this set of packages: $ sudo dnf repoquery --recursive --whatrequires findbugs Last metadata expiration check: 1:11:19 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 23:00:52 BST. ant-findbugs-0:3.0.1-25.fc34.noarch eclipse-findbugs-0:3.0.1-23.fc34.noarch eclipse-findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch findbugs-contrib-samples-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch findbugs-tools-0:3.0.1-25.fc34.noarch $ sudo dnf repoquery --recursive --whatrequires findbugs-bcel Last metadata expiration check: 1:11:24 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 23:00:52 BST. ant-findbugs-0:3.0.1-25.fc34.noarch eclipse-findbugs-0:3.0.1-23.fc34.noarch eclipse-findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch findbugs-0:3.0.1-25.fc34.noarch findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch findbugs-contrib-samples-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch findbugs-tools-0:3.0.1-25.fc34.noarch $ sudo dnf repoquery --recursive --whatrequires findbugs-contrib Last metadata expiration check: 1:11:31 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 23:00:52 BST. eclipse-findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch findbugs-contrib-samples-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch $ sudo dnf repoquery --recursive --whatrequires eclipse-findbugs Last metadata expiration check: 1:11:39 ago on Sat 29 May 2021 23:00:52 BST. eclipse-findbugs-contrib-0:7.4.7-6.fc34.noarch It's been interesting keeping FindBugs alive since I picked it up in 2010 (11 years ago... where has the time gone?!), but the world has moved on (to SpotBugs), and I think it's time to let it go. Regards, Rich [1] http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2016-November/004321.html [3] https://mailman.cs.umd.edu/pipermail/findbugs-discuss/2017-September/004383.html [4] https://spotbugs.github.io/ [5] https://github.com/mebigfatguy/fb-contrib -- Richard Fearn richardfe...@gmail.com
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