Bug#626305: liblucene2-java in squeeze misses many bugfixes, especially SOLR-822, please backport from wheezy

Ferdinando ferdinando at riseup.net
Wed May 11 08:16:40 UTC 2011


Hi Niels,

> The reason why you cannot see the dependency is probably that you looked
> at the binary package eclipse.  The package actually depending on
> liblucene2-java is eclipse-platform, which is (also) built from a source
> package called eclipse. :)
> 
> The reason why we need to modify eclipse is because we got some
> non-trivial with plugins not being loaded in eclipse if some
> dependencies where upgraded.  This lead to #587657, which started out
> with a problem sat4j, but we later learned lucene2 produced a similar
> effect (e.g. see message #125).
>   The issue is particularly annoying as it is non-trivial to debug why
> this happens, because eclipse silently degrades itself in most cases and
> the rest it says something like "Cannot open editor
> org.eclipse.cdt.editor.CEdtior, class not found".  Neither helps the
> user to realise they have to manually fix a file that is out of date.

thanks for the detailed explanation. I fear that backporting a complex package 
as eclipse-platform is out of scope for me at the moment, sorry.

Thanks for maintaining lucene in Debian!

Ciao, Ferdinando





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