Bug#681041: eclipse: upgrade disables installed plugins

[Niels Thykier]

On 2012-07-10 10:42, Shai Berger wrote:
> Package: eclipse
> Version: 3.8.0~rc4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> [...]
> 
> Package: eclipse
> Version: 3.8.0~rc4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I've just upgraded my eclipse, to find my plugins "missing";
> they were not active, and not in the "installed software" reports.
> 
> I wanted to install them, and found:
> 
> The EGit plug-in (installed as a Debian package) still had its
> "software site" in the list of update sources. Updating from there
> reported that the software is already installed; I added more
> packages from this site, and it made the plug-in live again.
> 
> Aptana Studio (which I had installed directly from their site) was
> nowhere to be found, and had to be completely reinstalled.
> Aptana Studio - http://download.aptana.com/studio3/plugin/install
> 
> Aptana Studio, among other things, defines perspectives. Some of the
> perspective settings were lost.
> 
> Thanks for your good work,
> 
> Shai.
> 
> [...]

Hi,

This is a known issue #649878 / #587657 that we have not been able to
fix.  A quick fix should be removing ~/.eclipse and then reinstalling
locally installed plugins.

~Niels