Bug#368500: Should eclipse support several arquitectures?

[Luis Matos]

Seg, 2006-05-22 às 20:43 +0200, Michael Koch escreveu:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:17:14PM +0100, Luis Matos wrote:
> > Package: eclipse
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > In source, eclipse supports sevral arquitectures such as amd64 and ia64, 
> > true?
> > 
> > If that's true, why it only supports i386 in debian?
> 
> No. See below.
well ... it's true ... but it also supports other arquitectures in
debian.
> 
> > I don't like such comparisons, but ubuntu suports several:
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/devel/eclipse
> 
> The page http://packges.debian.org/eclipse is outdated. It will
> hopefully be okay when Eclipse 3.1.2-2 is completely build.
bad, bad packages.d.o
> Eclipse for Debian and Ubuntu is build from the same source deb.
> The is no reason for differences. The real build status can be seen on:
> http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php?packages=eclipse

> I know powerpc works in debian too as I use it on one of my machines.
> ia64 shoudl work now too but there is some dependency problem with java
> runtimes (nothing Eclipse can solve alone). And we are workong on other
> ports like hppa, sparc and s390.
> 
i see in incoming.d.o the packages for amd64, for example.
> I close this bug now as it is not really a bug, just a question.
It was not a question ... but you can close it as it is resolved.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael

Best Regards

-- 
Luis Matos <gass at otiliamatos.ath.cx>