Bug#681726: So... what's the current state?

[Markus Koschany]

On 16.12.2016 12:08, Antipatico (jaco) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> so a quite long time passed, are there some updates on the subject?
> Is someone working on the issue or still no one has taken the
> responsibility to maintain the package?
> If someone is  working on it is there anyway to help?

Hi,

the problem is still the same. There must be someone who wants to
maintain Eclipse and package new updates. We now should have all
necessary build-dependencies in Debian. The last one was Tycho which got
accepted four days ago. [1]

We are approaching the Freeze very quickly now and updating Eclipse and
its related modules/plugins is a demanding and time-consuming task. I
have been working on Netbeans 8.2 for a while now and many unexpected
problems prevented that I could spend more time on packaging Eclipse.
Even if Eclipse was packaged today there would basically be no time for
testing anymore.

So help wanted means, please get involved with packaging and maintaining
the software.

Best regards,

Markus Koschany


[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tycho


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