Bug#352184: eclipse: cannot build from source with firefox support

Stephan Michels stephan.michels at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 10:21:46 UTC 2006


On 2/10/06, Bastian Kleineidam <calvin at debian.org> wrote:
> the latest upload required me to install mozilla-browser, so I tried
> to build eclipse with firefox support. This adds a "firefox-dev"
> build dependency, which does not exist. So it is impossible to build
> eclipse with firefox support on Debian.
> Please enable the build with firefox on Debian, or even better,
> support both packages - firefox and mozilla - like the last version.

We don't like Firefox anymore, and we won't support it any longer because of
his bugs.

Hmm, just kidding.

We run into many difficulties with Firefox (>1.4.99), and we trying to
fix these first.

If you try to build the package by your own, then change the variable
in rules to
with_browser := firefox




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