Bug#681726: eclipse: Upgrade Eclipse to Juno 4.2

Markus Koschany apo at debian.org
Thu May 5 21:29:02 UTC 2016


Am 05.05.2016 um 22:59 schrieb Mykola Nikishov:
> Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> writes:
> 
>> The new build system Tycho is completely different and is now Maven
>> based. It must be packaged first. Several modules must be updated as
>> well.
> 
> Strictly speaking, Eclipse Tycho is just a set of Maven plug-ins and
> (just a wild guess) not that hard to package.
> 
> The much bigger problem is p2 repositories that Tycho uses to download
> dependencies from. These dependencies are OSGi bundles and should be
> packaged first, right?

You will have to package all build-dependencies as separate Debian
packages if they are not already available. Downloading dependencies at
build time from untrusted repositories is not allowed in Debian.

Markus


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