Bug#574356: RM: eclipse/3.2.2-6.1

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm

Hi

I would to have eclipse from stable removed. The particular version of eclipse
in stable does not work with xulrunner 1.9 (or higher). The incompatibility
cannot be fixed with a binNMU and is not trivially patchable. This is
especially true for xulrunner in backports (1.9.1) which broke compatibility
with xulrunner 1.9.

Backporting a newer version of eclipse is at the current time not an option:
  - 3.4.1 is not release ready (and does not work with xulrunner 1.9.1).
  - 3.5.2 would require backporting 11+ depedencies[1].

While there has been reports of workarounds, I am not confident that we will
be able to build a new eclipse for stable with them within a resonable time
frame[2].

Thank you in advance,
~Niels

[1] Not to mentioned that this is not even in unstable yet. We expect to
upload it later this week.

[2] The 3.2.2 and 3.4.1 versions of eclipse use a different building method
than 3.5.2. A method none of us have any experience with.

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