Bug#358594: eclipse binary, desktop/menu things should be in eclipse-platform

Matthias Klose doko at cs.tu-berlin.de
Thu Mar 23 12:29:35 UTC 2006


Package: eclipse
Version: 3.1.2

Forwarded from https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/35871

I have just installed eclipse-platform-gcj on dapper and I have no
/usr/bin/eclipse script anywhere on my system. It appears this is
supposed to be in the eclipse-platform-common package but it's not.

Even though it shouldn't be required, I tried installing the full
eclipse package and sure enough /usr/bin/eclipse was hiding
there. This is not a viable solution, however, as the eclipse package
additionally requires me to install:

ant-optional, eclipse-jdt, eclipse-jdt-common, eclipse-pde,
eclipse-pde-common, eclipse-source, junit

None of which I want to install. It seems that the core
eclipse-platform files like /usr/bin/eclipse should either be moved
back to eclipse-platform-common or the SDK files (and required
dependencies) should be moved back into the eclipse-sdk package as it
used to be.




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