Re: Building completly from source
Jan Schulz <debian@katzien.de> writes:
> Hello Arnaud,
>
> Monday, April 12, 2004, 3:42:57 PM, you wrote:
>> I planed to ask some clarifications of the debian java policy about a
>> 'build from sources' but I don't think it's necessary. I plan to file RC
>> bugs on java packages not building from sources (that's why I'm Cc'ing
>> to debian-java).
>> Can you tell me which package does not build from sources?
>
> eclipse for a starter...
Nope! Eclipse build from source. The fact that Eclipse uses libs not in
Debian makes it go to contrib, but that's all.
<snip/>
> So in short: I would like to get eclipse into sarge (if tahts still
> possible...) and it won't happen when you file RC bugs about this
> issues. It's in contrib, so Ifeel confortable with this issues being
> present in sarge. YMMV.
No problem with Eclipse, in my POV, it's built from sources. Nothing to
worry about, Jan ;-)
Cheers,
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