Bug#336536: Strange dependencies in eclipse-base

[Michael Koch]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:57:57AM +0100, Marcin D??bicki wrote:
> Package: eclipse-base
> Severity: important
> 
> I don't really know why eclipse-base depends only on gij while it can
> work with Sun Java as well. package should depend on
> java-virtual-machine, java-compiler, java2-compiler or any package
> providing java compiler and runtime environment. I don't see many
> advantages of installing two or more virtual machines for java

This is a part-time solution. We need a script which generates the
master db file for the native jars of eclipse. This script is included
in eclipse-base. a better script for this will be included in gcc-4.0 or
java-gcj-compat soon. Then we can just call it from our postinst/postrm
scripts in eclipse. Until this is done we need it in eclipse. The script
needs a tool called gcj-dbtool. This tool is included in gij package.
That is why eclipse-base depends on it for now. This will be removed
soon.


Cheers,
Michael
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