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diff --git a/dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml b/dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 3a111ef6e0e6..000000000000 --- a/dev-java/commons-codec/metadata.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> -<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> -<pkgmetadata> -<maintainer type="project"> - <email>java@gentoo.org</email> - <name>Java</name> -</maintainer> -<upstream> - <remote-id type="github">apache/commons-codec</remote-id> -</upstream> - -<longdescription> -Codec was formed as an attempt to focus development effort on one -definitive implementation of the Base64 encoder. At the time of Codec's -proposal, there were approximately 34 different Java classes that dealt -with Base64 encoding spread over the Foundation's CVS repository. -Developers in the Jakarta Tomcat project had implemented an original -version of the Base64 codec which had been copied by the Commons -HttpClient and Apache XML project's XML-RPC subproject. After almost one -year, the two forked versions of Base64 had significantly diverged from -one another. XML-RPC had applied numerous fixes and patches which were -not applied to the Commons HttpClient Base64. Different subprojects had -differing implementations at various levels of compliance with the RFC -2045. - -Out of that confusing duplication of effort sprang this simple attempt -to encourage code reuse among various projects. While this package -contains a abstract framework for the creation of encoders and decoders, -Codec itself is primarily focused on providing functional utilities for -working with common encodings. -</longdescription> -</pkgmetadata> |