Bug#587657: locally installed plugins aren't loaded

[Kevin Locke]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 13:35 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> What version of lucene2 (liblucene2-java) do you have installed?

2.9.2+ds1-1 (Which I don't think has been updated in a while.)  But
the plugin jar from eclipse-platform (3.5.2-6) is
org.apache.lucene_2.9.3.jar.

> Kevin, thanks for the sed command; we may end up using it, though I
> would refer not having to modify the file manually if I can avoid it.
> If/when you experience this again could you please test if running
> 
>   eclipse -clean
> 
> fixes the file? I have heard a loose rumor that parts of upstream would
> like to change the format of the bundles.info.

Sure, I can reproduce the problem by installing/uninstalling any
plugin (the install/uninstall causes the bundles.info file to be
regenerated incorrectly).  Running `eclipse -clean` appears to have no
effect.

I agree, I don't think the sed command would be a good thing to
integrate into the package (too fragile, like you said), just a quick
fix for other affected users.  I would think that the source of the
problem (and the better place to fix it) is whatever generates
bundles.info (and whatever reads it and silently fails hard).

Cheers,
Kevin