Bug#574356: RM: eclipse/3.2.2-6.1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 16:03 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> 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].

For the record, this implies the removal of eclipse-cdt and
eclipse-nls-sdk; I've cloned this bug to create removal bugs for those.

Regards,

Adam