Bug#585690: eclipse: completely broken in Lenny

[Niels Thykier]

severity 585690 grave
retitle 585690 eclipse: completely broken in Lenny
block 585690 with 574356
# "cantfix" would have been better really.
tags 585690 + confirmed wontfix
thanks

Hi

As the subject (and the new title of the bug suggests) - eclipse in
Lenny is completely broken with slim to no chance of repair. I have
explained the reason for this in #574356, but a short recap.
  The version of eclipse in Lenny is incompatible with the xulrunner
version in Lenny and Lenny backports. We would need eclipse >= 3.4 and
>= 3.5 for Lenny and Lenny backports (respectively) to fix this and
neither of them are "doable" for Lenny / Lenny backports.
  I have asked the release team to remove eclipse from stable (see #574356).


I know that this is suboptimal for you as a user, but unfortunately
eclipse has been unmaintained for about 3 years and eclipse in Lenny is
pretty much a lost cause.
  It requires at least a 2 or 3 upstream version bump and uploading of
10+ other packages (some of these are upstream version bumps).


You may be able to use a work around (including making eclipse not able
to use xulrunner by providing non-existent paths).

The eclipse in Squeeze is doing vastly better, but unfortunately Squeeze
is not stable yet (and it may take a while before it is). You may be
able to use the eclipse in Squeeze (using apt pinning), alternatively
downloading eclipse directly from eclipse.org should also do.

Please note that if you download eclipse from eclipse.org or upgrade to
eclipse 3.5.2 in Squeeze, you will need to remove your ~/.eclipse, since
the old eclipse 3.2.2 in Debian has extracted old swt libraries into
that folder. These old swt libraries will take precedence over the ones
you need and will result in weird crashes.

If you are interested, I can look into making an unofficial and
unsupported stable backport. Though, I cannot make any guarantees to
whether it is possible to actually backport eclipse or if will break (a
lot of) other applications.

~Niels

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