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

[Michael Koch]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:52:00PM +0300, Max Dmitrichenko wrote:
> >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).
> 
> I just wanted to say that you probably should remove these eclipse
> packages from sparc in etch. What are they doing in repository if they
> are unusable and uninstallable? Waste space on CDs and mirrors?

The only packages from eclipse that are available on sparc are
architecture independent. Its not possible to remove them from one arch.
If we wanna remove them we need to remove them from all archs.
They dont waste space on the mirrors as they are there only once for all
architectures. I have to agree with the CDs/DVDs but thats a problem of
the CD/DVD creator when they include packages not installable on the
arch.


Cheers,
Michael
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