Bug#505553: (no subject)

[Niels Thykier]

notfound 505553 3.2.2-5
tags 505553 = patch
thanks

Hi Andreas

Sorry for the late reply and thank you for your interest in eclipse.

To the best of my knowledge 3.2.2 and eclipse 3.4.1 were built with a 
pristine tarball - the only difference was upstream shipped it as a zip 
file and it was repacked into a tar.gz for Debian. Upstream does have a 
"src" zip-file, but they do not "promote" it. It can be found on their 
download site under "Other downloads" and then scroll a bit down in the 
list (as I recall).

Nevertheless, for 3.5.1 we have decided to ally ourselves with 
eclipse-build and Fedora - Therefore your request makes sense for the 
coming 3.5.1 series and this is why I will keep it open (as a reminder).


For now, if you (or anyone else) are interested in helping out with 
eclipse 3.5.1:

We are using eclipse-build (e-b)[1] and our VCS has moved to git[2]. The 
git repository have all the required files to build eclipse, so you do 
not have to download the tarballs from e-b[1].

You can find us at #eclipse-linux on irc.freenode.net, #debian-java on 
irc.debian.org or per email depending on your preferred means of 
communication. I do not mind answering question specific to packaging 
eclipse - also please reply here if you feel we should add more 
information than this.

I have added "patch" to encourage people to read this bug if they want to 
help out or wants to know more about how we build eclipse 3.5.1.

~Niels
[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Linux_Tools_Project/Eclipse_Build
[2] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-java/eclipse.git