Re: Current status of your swt-gtk package
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Billy Biggs wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat (apaku@gmx.de):
>
> > On 10.10.05 00:01:02, Michael Koch wrote:
> > > We (my sponsor and I) will upload Eclipse to the contrib section for
> > > now as it depends on lucene and tomcat5 which are still in contrib.
> >
> > I'm curious: Why does Eclipse depend on tomcat5? At least the binaries
> > from eclipse.org don't need it.
>
> My understanding is this:
>
> The binaries from eclipse.org include Tomcat4, it is used to run the
> help server. Some part of tomcat4 requires non-free tools to build, and
> so is not included in debian. There are two options: rip out the
> non-free part of tomcat4 (the part isn't used by Eclipse) or update
> Eclipse to tomcat5 and patch any broken pieces there.
The second option was done long ago, originally for Fedora.
Cheers,
Michael
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