Bug#681726: Time to remove eclipse from Testing?

[Markus Koschany]

Am 09.11.2017 um 21:34 schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
[...]
> Have you considered dropping the libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni dependency
> from eclipse-rcp? Then the swt-gtk source package could stop building
> libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni and we could complete the webkitgtk removal
> from Debian Testing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Bicha

Hi,

sorry for the delay.

I haven't tested that yet but I believe this will simply make the
package unusable for everyone. I'm not sure what we can do to assist you
in your effort to remove webkitgtk from Debian. Ok, most obviously we
could "just" package the latest Eclipse version but that won't happen
anytime soon.

We should definitely try to avoid this sort of dependency mess in the
future by packaging important libraries like eclipse-rcp in a separate
source package. That would be similar to what we are doing whith
Netbeans and libnb-platform18-java at the moment. It simply ensures that
we can resolve such issues more easily by dropping the hard to maintain
IDE but keeping other important dependencies which don't require that
much effort in theory.

Regards,

Markus

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