Re: eclipse packages for !i386 platforms for sarge release
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 06:26:48PM +0100, Jan Schulz wrote:
> I'm actually not sure, what IBM offers there: They have a JDK for
> "32-bit xSeries (Intel compatible)", "32-bit iSeries/pSeries", "64-bit
> iSeries/pSeries", "31-bit zSeries (S/390)" and "64-bit zSeries (S/390)".
> Maybe someone can enlighten me, what the 'iSeries/pSeries' is and of
> the last two bits are what debian calls s390...
iSeries are what used to be called AS/400 I think (powerpc and powerpc64).
pSeries are what used to be called RS/6000 systems (powerpc and powerpc64).
31-bit zSeries is s390, 64-bit zSeries is s390x. Linux runs on all of these
now, I believe.
> Currently eclipse is shiped mostly as 'Architecture: all', but there
> are platform dependend modules (JNI -> SWT, other). Also, this libs
> are not 64bit clean, which is why the libs are already not shiped as
> 'Arch: any'.
>
> What is the recomended way to deal with that problem? Ship as
> 'Architecture: powerpc i386 s390 sparc' instead of 'Arch: all' and be
> done with it? Also, will eclipse, with missing dependencies (-> jdks
> are not packged), move into testing?
The JDK dependencies should be ignored for contrib; that's part of its
definition (contrib packages can depend on things outside of Debian).
Architecture, as I understand it, should be the union of those of the
dependencies. So if SWT is only available on 3 architectures, eclipse
should use the same Architecture field. You might want to raise the issue
on -devel or ask an ftpmaster, though; I'm not entirely clear on the
reasons.
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- mdz
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