Bug#681726: Time to remove eclipse from Testing?

[Markus Koschany]

Am 01.11.2017 um 20:47 schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 6:24 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:
>> Le 20/10/2017 à 23:52, Jeremy Bicha a écrit :
>>
>>> Never mind. I tried doing the dak queries and I eventually got more
>>> than 500 reverse-depends before I gave up. (Attached)
>>
>> Funny, I never realized that src:eclipse was basically holding most of
>> the Java packages. Maybe this package deserves some of my attention
>> after all ;)
> 
> Adrian Bunk suggests removing bnd's Build-Depends on eclipse-jdt and
> eclipse-rcp. He thinks that might significantly decrease the number of
> affected packages.

It appears the package can be built without eclipse-jdt and eclipse-rcp.
Works with cowbuilder at least. We probably exclude the eclipse classes
in debian/bootstrap.xml anyway. I'm not exactly sure how the BND Eclipse
plugin is supposed to work because I see we also symlink various jars
into Eclipse specific directories in debian/rules.

I believe it would be possible to drop the build-dependencies on
eclipse-jdt and eclipse-rcp. We would lose the BND Eclipse plugin but
the rest should still continue to work.

Markus

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