Bug#507536: it does not work here either

[Pantelis Koukousoulas]

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Ana Guerrero <ana at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 05:32:44AM +0300, Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote:
>> >
>> > Please try openjdk instead of gcj, gcj has never been really reliable
>> > for eclipse afaict.
>> > The only reason it was pursued was because it has the right license.
>> > Now with openjdk, gcj should probably be deprecated (at least for eclipse).
>> >
>>
>
> I need to use gcj, if eclipse does not work with it, after the line
> testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...found
> it should stop.
>
>> Also, make sure you have installed xulrunner-dev or the equivalent.
>> If that doesn't work either, then the problem is that unstable has a too new
>> version of xulrunner for eclipse.
>>
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> If i need to install xulrunner-dev then a depend is missing.
>
>> Mozilla people tend to change the interfaces at will which tends to break
>> eclipse a lot. The most current breakage (also reported as a Fedora bug)
>> is iirc still being discussed in upstream eclipse's bugzilla.
>
> then this depende should be versioned :?
>

Agreed with all the above, but eclipse seems to have no active
maintainer right now
and the version in debian is trully ancient (the equivalent of kde 2.x).

The best solution at this time is probably to remove eclipse
altogether from debian
until someone with the needed time and dedication can pick it up and bring in
the current versions.

Until then we 'd just be beating a dead horse, imho.