Bug#553131: eclipse: FTBFS - native libraries are not built from source.

[Niels Thykier]

forcemerge 553131 553133
retitle 553131 eclipse: FTBFS - native libraries are not built from source.
tags 553131 = confirmed
reassign 553131 src:eclipse
thanks

Hi

It turns out (by looking at the build logs) that this is caused by the
3.4.1 build passing a misspelled path to dpkg-shlibdeps. I have tried to
rebuild eclipse 3.4.1 with the correct path but it breaks the x86 build
because (as the title suggests) these files are apparently not built from
source. The libraries appears to have been build on a amd64 and (based on 
the feed back of users) eclipse have no issue with this.

I have not been able to figure out why it fails to rebuilt them in 3.4.1;
nevertheless I am more focused on bringing 3.5.1 into Debian which (unlike
a fix of 3.4.1) will close all of the currently filed RC bugs[1].

I could upload an eclipse 3.5.1 now to the archive but it would suffer
from a "FTBFS/uses convenience sources", which is why I have not done it.


To anyone considering to NMU this package - be my guest, but your time is
probably better spent on other packages or helping us getting 3.5.1 done.
The upstream build system is not exactly "easy" to understand nor work
with. Furthermore, as I recall eclipse 3.4.1 does not support xulrunner
1.9.1 so you would have to disable that as well. This is (one of the)
reason(s) to #507536 (and its 5-6 duplicates).

If you feel that this package is too RC buggy to be in unstable feel free 
to request an RM from unstable - I would prefer you did not[2], but on the 
other hand having 5 unique RC bugs is pushing it and therefore I cannot 
really object to a RM request.

~Niels

[1] That being (besides this/these):
#507536 - eclipse: fails to start due to xulrunner - workaround; disable welcome screen.
#521312 - eclipse: Eclipse fails to start on SPARC64
#552480 - eclipse: GTK dialog stopped working
#554584 - eclipse_3.4.1-1(ia64/unstable): FTBFS: timeout during build

The four above plus this/these are already fixed in our VCS:
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-java/eclipse.git

[2] There are some bugs non-RC bugs on the BTS that will not be fixed in 
the next upload and I would prefer not to have to reopen those and 
explain what happens to the submitters.