Bug#526489: eclipse: should this package be orphaned

[Ana Guerrero]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:41:45PM +0300, Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Marcus Better<marcus at better.se> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> >> From: Ana Guerrero <ana at debian.org>
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> >> Third and last warning, I will orphan eclipse next saturday (20th June),
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> > Perhaps the right thing to do is simply to have eclipse removed from the
> > archive. It is way too outdated to be useful now, and would require *major*
> > work to update.
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> The major work is essentially equivalent to a rewrite (of the packaging).
> Different jdk, build system, update management, policy, etc etc.
> Pretty much the only things left will be the boilerplate (debian/copyright
> files and such).
> 
> Removing the eclipse 3.2 from the archive would be fine with me, fwiw,
> especially if it motivates anyone to contribute towards getting 3.5 in.
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I think removing directly is not a good idea. It is a widely used
application, so I am really hoping somebody gets interested in maintaining it.
But if nobody takes over, yes, eventually we should remove it.
In the meantime, IMHO it makes sense ask the removal from testing.

Ana