Bug#681726: Time to remove eclipse from Testing?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:08:10AM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
>...
> We should definitely try to avoid this sort of dependency mess in the
> future by packaging important libraries like eclipse-rcp in a separate
> source package. That would be similar to what we are doing whith
> Netbeans and libnb-platform18-java at the moment. It simply ensures that
> we can resolve such issues more easily by dropping the hard to maintain
> IDE but keeping other important dependencies which don't require that
> much effort in theory.

I tried to sort out what I could find as required for getting the
ancient eclipse out of testing in [1]:

1. src:bnd
You fixed that already.

2. batik -> maven -> guice -> libspring-java -> aspectj -> eclipse-platform
Is there some good way to break this dependency chain?

3. split libequinox-osgi-java out of src:eclise
Or as a short-term hack, build only libequinox-osgi-java from src:eclipse.

> Regards,
> 
> Markus

cu
Adrian

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880470#10

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