Bug#891956: Your mail

Markus Koschany apo at debian.org
Mon May 14 21:56:44 BST 2018


Am 14.05.2018 um 22:21 schrieb Rafi Rubin:
> The dependencies for 3.8.1-11 end up requiring libequinox-osgi-java >=
> 3.9.1 (through eclipse-rcp), which doesn't have
> /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.8.1.dist.jar
> 
> 
> Going back to stable, 3.8.1-10 for the eclipse packages at least catches
> that jar, but fails after an illegal reflection error.  Maybe it will
> work with an older jdk that's less picky, I haven't tried.
> 
> 
> 
> Is there any intent to package the newer versions of eclipse?  It looks
> like 3.8 is eol at this point.

We won't ship Elicpse 3.8 in Buster. The libequinox-osgi-java issue is
only one of the most obvious bugs in Eclipse and could be easily fixed
but the illegal reflection errors are all caused by Java 10. This
version is simply not ready for everything that is newer than OpenJDK 8.
The plan is to salvage the eclipse-platform package somehow which is a
build-dependency for some important packages but maintaining Eclipse and
its plugins requires more regular help from people who are interested in
keeping it in a good shape. At the moment those volunteers don't exist.

See also https://bugs.debian.org/681726

Markus

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