Am 27.09.20 um 12:55 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg: [...] > I fully share Markus' analysis. Packaging these huge projects isn't > viable without more regular, dedicated, contributors. For client side > applications such as Netbeans or Eclipse I tend to think the community > would be better served with flatpak packages (it would be nice to have a > pure Java toolchain generating these packages), and for complex server > side applications a .deb package simply generated by jdeb would be fine. I wanted to move the idea forward and just pushed a new update of netbeans to Git. Currently there is only one reverse-dependency in Debian, openstereogram, that requires libnb-absolutelayout-java. I have simplified netbeans and now it only builds this extra library which consists of two classes. That will ensure opensterogram can migrate to testing again. If nobody objects, I can upload the changes. I intend to update libnb-platform18-java soon, it is basically the same source package as src:netbeans but it only builds the platform code. For instance the platform packages are needed for visualvm. I believe maintaining this package is viable. Perhaps we should create a new Java wiki page and briefly document how to install Netbeans and Eclipse with flatpack. I think it's quite simple, so we don't have to write too much documentation. Regards, Markus
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