Righty ho, I had a proper look at the above list. Two packages have simple, direct dependencies on netty-3.x, and their code is not easy to port to the netty-4.x API, and upstream haven't cared. These are a big problem:
* osmosis: https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/5489 * zookeeper: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2399 activemq depends directly on zookeeper's client library (but not otherwise on netty-3.x). Three packages are fixed upstream, so could just do with a new package: * apache-curator. ..but nobody cares. RM? https://bugs.debian.org/890624 * libgpars-groovy-java: recommended-only rdeps (groovy), fixed upstream but not tagged. I've asked for a tag: https://github.com/GPars/GPars/issues/60 * bookkeeper: fixed upstream in 4.6.1: https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/commit/74f795136c1fff3badb29fc982d0cc2d43096b45 They label 4.5.0 as "stable", though. These packages are not serious, maintained packages: * eclipse-aether: RM'd: https://bugs.debian.org/881608 * elasticsearch: not going to be shipped, and probably fixed upstream anyway: https://bugs.debian.org/803713 And then there's "aether", a utility library for maven repositories. It's been deprecated, renamed, deprecated again, then merged into maven-resolver. New enough maven-resolver is packaged, and our version of maven (3.5) is new enough to not depend on aether. However, a couple of libraries' upstreams maintain compatibility with older maven, which involves supporting the aether names for classes. These are: * tycho, which is complicated and doesn't seem to have any rdeps, but Luca seems to care about it still, so I'm not (yet!) going to start yelling RM, RM, RM: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-java/tycho.git/log/ * maven-indexer, which is fixed upstream: https://github.com/apache/maven-indexer/commit/ad07405c06b422cb529d3badaa1b6b376699c9c1 * maven-common-artifact-filters, which looks simple but upstream have told me is not, and they're almost certainly right: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-683 And that's it, I think! I'm going to continue attempting to port osmosis and zookeeper upstream, but I've found it very challenging. __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.