Packaging eclipse 3.4.1 for debian/ubuntu

[Pantelis Koukousoulas]

> So my first action now was to subscribe to the list.

Done.

>
> I also asked to add myself to the alioth project to be able to commit to
> the development svn.
>
> I would advise anybody who really intends to be helpful to follow these
> two steps.

I 'm not a debian developer, would it be possible for me to do this?
In any case I think I 'd prefer to keep this "unofficial" at first and commit
to a central repository when we have something reasonably serviceable.

>For the concrete packaging I would at first suggest to clean up the source
>packaging.  Currently the source tarball contains three zip archives from
>completely separate upstream projects.  IMHO this is no optimal packaging
>strategy and I would start by packaging icu4j and jsch separately and
>once this is done create a proper get-upstream-source target for debian/rules
>to enable newcomers to drop in by providing a defined state of work.

Agreed.

Btw, It would be nice if interested people drop by #debian-java in OFTC
to discuss things in  person.

Thanks,
Pantelis