Bug#414125: eclipse-gcj: Package uninstallable on sparc

Michael Koch konqueror at gmx.de
Sat Mar 10 17:06:41 CET 2007


severity 414125 wishlist
retitle 414125 eclipse needs porting to sparc (and other architectures)
thanks


On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:23:22PM +0300, Max Dmitrichenko wrote:
> Package: eclipse-gcj
> Version: 3.2.1-4
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I'm trying to install Eclipse on sparc architecture. That's what I get:
> # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 apt-get install eclipse-gcj
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   eclipse-gcj: Depends: eclipse but it is not installable
>                Depends: eclipse-jdt-gcj but it is not installable
>                Depends: eclipse-pde-gcj but it is not installable
>                Depends: eclipse-platform-gcj but it is not installable
>                Depends: eclipse-rcp-gcj but it is not installable
>                Depends: libswt3.2-gtk-gcj but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
> 
> Indeed, none of its dependencies is available on sparc - only intel and powerpc.

In a perfect world all packages this would just work as eclipse would
build everywhere. The problem is that the eclipse package is not ported
to sparc (and some othere architectures). The eclipse-gcj package is
architeture independant and therefore available on all architectures.

I downgrade this bug to wishlist as eclipse needs serious work to make
everything work on sparc. When you install the eclipse package the
installation will still fail because the libswt3.2-gtk-jni package is
not available on sparc (yet).


Cheers,
Michael
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