On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Markus Koschany <a...@debian.org> wrote:
>> Am 20.10.2017 um 18:43 schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
>>> Are there any objections to me requesting that the ftpmasters remove
>>> swt-gtk and eclipse from Debian Testing so that we can complete the
>>> webkitgtk removal from Testing?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jeremy Bicha
>>
>> Thank you for contacting us. I completely agree with you. Eclipse in its
>> current state should not be a blocker for other packages in testing. I
>> can't promise anything but I will try to get the package in shape again
>> but this process will be quite slow probably, so the request for help is
>> as valid as ever.
>
> Never mind. I tried doing the dak queries and I eventually got more
> than 500 reverse-depends before I gave up. (Attached)
>
> The only other reverse-depends of libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni in Testing
> now is tuxguitar which was already switched in Unstable to swt4-gtk
> which should work with webkit2gtk.

Have you considered dropping the libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni dependency
from eclipse-rcp? Then the swt-gtk source package could stop building
libswt-webkit-gtk-3-jni and we could complete the webkitgtk removal
from Debian Testing.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

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