Bug#447202: eclipse-platform: Not start-/usable for normal users

[Kai Wb.]

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Package: eclipse-platform
Version: 3.2.1-6
Severity: important
Justification: Renders package unusable for normal (new/inexperienced) users

This package is the base-package for several standalone packages like
eclipse-cdt. And if you install e.g. eclipse-cdt it's only based on
eclipse-platform. But eclipse-platform brings no script/program for running
eclipse (nothing is installed to /usr/bin which means a normal user expects to
install eclipse-cdt and have a running eclipse-system which is startable via the
normal commands (in this case that would be eclipse on the shell or via the
preferred GUI (e.g. KDE)).

This problem is made worse by the fact that no documentation accompanies this
package.

This results in four possible approaches (as far as I can see) for resolving
this problem:
1) raise eclipse from recommends (this should maybe forwarded to
eclipse-cdt/-jdt/-...) to depends or
2) integrate the binaries into eclipse-platform or
3) create eclipse-bin package on which all plugins like CDT depend or
4) state clearly in the package-description of the plugins, that eclipse is
required for running them.

Again: this is not a problem for experienced users but for people who want to
have a start with Debian (today I encountered this problem when helping a friend
of mine).

If you need further information, feel free to contact me.

Greetings,
Kai

P.S.: I was not quite sure whether I should rate this as normal or important,
but decided for important because
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities reads that it renders the
package unusable for some users.



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Kai Wasserbäch (Kai Wasserbaech)

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