Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned

Pantelis Koukousoulas pktoss at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 11:41:45 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Marcus Better<marcus at better.se> wrote:
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> Hi,
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>> From: Ana Guerrero <ana at debian.org>
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>> Third and last warning, I will orphan eclipse next saturday (20th June),
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> Perhaps the right thing to do is simply to have eclipse removed from the
> archive. It is way too outdated to be useful now, and would require *major*
> work to update.

The major work is essentially equivalent to a rewrite (of the packaging).
Different jdk, build system, update management, policy, etc etc.
Pretty much the only things left will be the boilerplate (debian/copyright
files and such).

Removing the eclipse 3.2 from the archive would be fine with me, fwiw,
especially if it motivates anyone to contribute towards getting 3.5 in.





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