Re: About eclipse (was Re: Package depending on netbeans)
Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 00:05 +0100, Niels Thykier a écrit :
> Onkar Shinde wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> wrote:
> >> Le mercredi 11 novembre 2009 à 13:50 +0530, Onkar Shinde a écrit :
> >>> [ ...]
> >>> Ad for Eclipse, there are already three developers working on updating
> >>> the package. It is not an easy task. :-)
> >> In Ubuntu you mean ?
> >
> > No. I meant Debian. http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-java/eclipse.git
> >
> >
> > Onkar
> >
> >
>
> Hi
>
> As the Ubuntu release approached Matthias Klose (doko) requested that we
> uploaded eclipse to Ubuntu before it froze. As you have noticed we took
> that offer and began to upload to gain better testing coverage; which
> have unveiled a few bugs and solutions. Now that things have slowed down
> a bit on the Ubuntu side we will "return" to Debian and get it uploaded
> here.
It is just a great news! Many thanks for your work.
> One of the prime factors for not uploading to Debian yet is that eclipse
> does not use system jars but pre-bundled ones. We are currently working
> on that and three other things[1] we want fixed before we upload to
> Debian/Experimental. Help is of course more than welcome - particularly
> people skilled with ant, since a lot of our work involves translating
> the Fedora spec file into ant code and sending it to eclipse-build.
OK, I can help with one or two. Do you have a list of packages which should be uploaded ?
> @Onkar: While it is a fair assumption that only a team of DDs would be
> insane enough to ITA eclipse; the truth is that the "Debian Orbital
> Alignment Team"[2] only consists of 2 DMs and a "(no title)". On a
> related note; it will be one hell of an RFS...
I can help with the sponsoring.
Sylvestre
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